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Mississippi State Symbols Online

Mississippi Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots

Mississippi 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 Mississippi state facts such as Mississippi 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 Mississippi, 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.

Mississippi State Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots

State Symbol Name - Scientific Date Adopted
American Folk Dance Square Dance Jul 1, 1995
Automobile Museum The Tupelo Auto Museum, Inc. Jul 1, 2003
Beverage Milk Jul 1, 1984
Bird Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) Feb 23, 1944
Butterfly Spicebush Swallowtail (Battus philenor) 1991
Coat of Arms Coat of Arms Feb 7, 2001
Fish Largemouth or Black Bass (Micropterus salmoides) 1974
Flag State Flag 1984
Flower Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) Feb 26, 1952
Fossil Prehistoric Whale (Basilosaurus cetoides), Zygorhiza kochii Mar 26, 1981
Grand Opera House Grand Opera House of Meridian 1993
Historical Industrial Museum The Mississippi Industrial Heritage Museum, Inc. 2004
Insect Honeybee (Apis mellifera) 1980
Land Mammal White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) Apr 12, 1974-

Land Mammal

Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) 1997
Language English Jul 1, 1987
Motto Virtute et armis (By valor and arms) NA
Natural Science Museum Mississippi Museum of Natural Science: Mississippi Game and Fish Commission's 1974
Nicknames Nick Name NA
Reptile American Alligator (Alligator Mississippiensis) Jul 1, 2005
Seal Great Seal 1798
Shell Oyster Shell (Crassostrea virginica) Apr 12, 1974
Song "Go, Mississippi" May 17, 1962
Stone Petrified Wood May 14, 1976
Toy Teddy Bear Jul 1, 2002
Tree Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) 1938
Waterfowl Wood Duck (Aix Sponsa) 1974
Water Mammal Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Apr 12, 1974
Wildflower Coreopsis (Coreopsis sp.) 1991
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State Map: Symbols
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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