A town in southeastern Arizona, near the Mexican border; population 5,991 (est. 2008). An artists' colony, it was a copper mining center in the early 1900s and is noted as the source of Bisbee turquoise, an incidental byproduct of the copper mining.
Definition of Bisbee in US English:
Bisbee
proper nounˈbizbē
A town in southeastern Arizona, near the Mexican border; population 5,991 (est. 2008). An artists' colony, it was a copper mining center in the early 1900s and is noted as the source of Bisbee turquoise, an incidental byproduct of the copper mining.