OLDUVAI GORGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Olduvai Gorge mean? 

• OLDUVAI GORGE (noun)
  The noun OLDUVAI GORGE has 1 sense:

1. a gorge in northeastern Tanzania where anthropologists have found some of the earliest human remains

  Familiarity information: OLDUVAI GORGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLDUVAI GORGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A gorge in northeastern Tanzania where anthropologists have found some of the earliest human remains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

gorge (a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it))

Holonyms ("Olduvai Gorge" is a part of...):

Tanzania; United Republic of Tanzania (a republic in eastern Africa)