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QUINTANA ROO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Quintana Roo mean?
• QUINTANA ROO (noun)
The noun QUINTANA ROO has 1 sense:
1. a Mexican state on the eastern side of the Yucatan Peninsula
Familiarity information: QUINTANA ROO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Mexican state on the eastern side of the Yucatan Peninsula
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)
Meronyms (parts of "Quintana Roo"):
Cancun (a popular island resort off the northeastern tip of the Yucatan peninsula)
Holonyms ("Quintana Roo" is a part of...):
Mexico; United Mexican States (a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810)
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