"texas" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the practice of naming cabins after US states, the state of Texas having been recently admitted to the Union.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "texases",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "texas (plural texases)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "tex‧as"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1866, New Albany Ledger, October 6 (describing the steamboat Robert E. Lee)",
          "text": "She has sixty one staterooms in the main cabin, twenty four extra rooms in the texas for passengers, a nursery for servants and children, and a cabin adjoining the nursery in which are staterooms for fifty passengers."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Norman A. Fox, The Rawhide Years",
          "text": "Now Will saw lights ahead and they were to the landing where the steamboats lay moored, banking the river front solidly as far as the ... whose lights rose tier upon tier from main deck to the cupola-like pilot houses atop the texases.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The topmost cabin deck on a steamboat."
      ],
      "id": "en-texas-en-noun-amwtXa16",
      "links": [
        [
          "steamboat",
          "steamboat"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɛk.səs/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɛk.sɪs/",
      "note": "locally also"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɛk.sɪz/",
      "note": "locally also"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Texas"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛksəs"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛksɪs"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-Texas.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/67/En-us-Texas.ogg/En-us-Texas.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/En-us-Texas.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "texas"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the practice of naming cabins after US states, the state of Texas having been recently admitted to the Union.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "texases",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "texas (plural texases)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "tex‧as"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with homophones",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Rhymes:English/ɛksəs",
        "Rhymes:English/ɛksəs/2 syllables",
        "Rhymes:English/ɛksɪs",
        "Rhymes:English/ɛksɪs/2 syllables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1866, New Albany Ledger, October 6 (describing the steamboat Robert E. Lee)",
          "text": "She has sixty one staterooms in the main cabin, twenty four extra rooms in the texas for passengers, a nursery for servants and children, and a cabin adjoining the nursery in which are staterooms for fifty passengers."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Norman A. Fox, The Rawhide Years",
          "text": "Now Will saw lights ahead and they were to the landing where the steamboats lay moored, banking the river front solidly as far as the ... whose lights rose tier upon tier from main deck to the cupola-like pilot houses atop the texases.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The topmost cabin deck on a steamboat."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "steamboat",
          "steamboat"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɛk.səs/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɛk.sɪs/",
      "note": "locally also"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɛk.sɪz/",
      "note": "locally also"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Texas"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛksəs"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛksɪs"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-Texas.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/67/En-us-Texas.ogg/En-us-Texas.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/En-us-Texas.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "texas"
}