MESOAMERICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mesoamerica mean? 

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

1. Mexico and Central America

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MESOAMERICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mexico and Central America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Mesoamerica"):

Mexico; United Mexican States (a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810)

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

North America (a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama)

Derivation:

Mesoamerican (of or relating to the people of Mesoamerica or their languages or cultures)

 Context examples 

The new genomic analysis presented in the study has shown that around 8,000 years ago, Native Americans were on the move again, but this time from Mesoamerica into both North and South America.

(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)