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eRD | Resources | 50 States | Symbols |  Minnesota

Minnesota State Symbols Online

Minnesota Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots

 

Minnesota State Symbols Online is a state resource directory containing descriptions and pictures of the state symbols, emblems, and mascots of the state, which can be quickly accessed. This resource guide represents many of Minnesota state facts such as Minnesota state symbols, the state flower, the state gemstone, the state insect, the state tree, the state bird, the state animal, the state flag that flies over Minnesota, and the capital, as well as many more symbols, emblems, and mascots. These types of state directories are designed to help children learn, and are often used by children in the public and private education system as well as home schooled children.

 

 
Minnesota State Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots

State Symbol

Name - Scientific

Adopted
Bird Common Loon (Gavia immer) 1961
Butterfly Monarch (Danaus plexippus) 2000
Drink Milk 1998
Fish Walleye Pike (Stizostedion v. vitreum) 1965
Flag State Flag 1893; 1957
Flower Pink and White Lady Slipper (Cypripedium reginae) 1893
Gemstone Lake Superior Agate 1969
Grain Wild Rice (Zizania aquatica) 1977
Motto L'Etoile du nord  (Star of the north) NA
Nicknames NA NA
Muffin Blueberry Muffin 1988
Mushroom Morel (Morchella esculenta) 1984
Photograph "Grace"  (Eric Enstrom) 2002
Seal Great Seal 1861
Song "Hail! Minnesota" 1945
Tree Red (Norway) Pine  (Pinus resinosa) 1953
 

 

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State symbols represent things that are special to a particular state.

 

symbol  \ˈsim-bəl\
noun


Etymology:
in sense 1, from Late Latin symbolum, from Late Greek symbolon, from Greek, token, sign; in other senses from Latin symbolum token, sign, symbol, from Greek symbolon, literally, token of identity verified by comparing its other half, from symballein to throw together, compare, from syn- + ballein to throw — more at devil
Date: 15th century

1:  Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.
 

 

 

 

 
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