MAGDALENA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Magdalena mean? 

• MAGDALENA (noun)
  The noun MAGDALENA has 1 sense:

1. a river that rises in the Andes mountains in southwestern Colombia and flows generally northward to empty into the Caribbean Sea at Barranquilla

  Familiarity information: MAGDALENA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGDALENA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A river that rises in the Andes mountains in southwestern Colombia and flows generally northward to empty into the Caribbean Sea at Barranquilla

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Magdalena; Magdalena River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Magdalena" is a part of...):

Colombia; Republic of Colombia (a republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simon Bolivar; Spanish is the official language)

 Context examples 

The team, led by Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz at the University of Cambridge have developed the embryo-like structures, using three types of stem cells which let them reconstruct a process known as gastrulation, an essential step in which the embryonic cells being self-organising into the correct structure for an embryo to form.

(Scientists generate key life event in artificial mouse ‘embryo’ created from stem cells, University of Cambridge)