TANZANIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tanzania mean? 

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

1. a republic in eastern Africa

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TANZANIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in eastern Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Tanzania; United Republic of Tanzania

Instance hypernyms:

African country; African nation (any one of the countries occupying the African continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Tanzania"):

capital of Tanzania; Dar es Salaam (the capital and largest port city of Tanzania on the Indian Ocean)

Dodoma (a city in the center of Tanzania that has been designated as the future capital)

Tanganyika (a former state in East Africa; united with Zanzibar in 1964 to form Tanzania)

Zanzibar (an island in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa; part of the United Republic of Tanzania)

Mbeya (a city in southwestern Tanzania)

Mwanza (a city in northern Tanzania on Lake Victoria)

Tabora (a city in western Tanzania)

Tanga (a port city in northeastern Tanzania on the Indian Ocean)

Serengeti; Serengeti Plain (a vast plain in Tanzania to the west of the Great Rift Valley known for its wildlife)

Kilimanjaro; Mount Kilimanjaro (the highest peak in Africa; located in northeastern Tanzania; 19,340 feet high)

Lake Malawi; Lake Nyasa (a long lake in southeastern Africa between Tanzania, Mozambique, and Malawi)

Olduvai Gorge (a gorge in northeastern Tanzania where anthropologists have found some of the earliest human remains)

Meronyms (members of "Tanzania"):

Tanzanian (a native or inhabitant of Tanzania)

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

East Africa (a geographical area in eastern Africa)

Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)

Derivation:

Tanzanian (of or relating to the republic of Tanzania or its people)

 Context examples 

The newly discovered fossil was unearthed in the Rukwa Rift Basin of Tanzania.

(Researchers find oldest fossil evidence of modern African venomous snakes, NSF)

The new species, named Rukwatitan bisepultus, was first spotted embedded in a cliff wall in the Rukwa Rift Basin of southwestern Tanzania.

(Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania, NSF)

The fossil evidence from Tanzania confirmed that date, allowing researchers to more accurately characterize the timing and evolution of the symbiotic relationship between termites and fungi.

(Researchers discover oldest evidence of 'farming' by insects, NSF)

Based on a fossil unearthed in southern Tanzania, these early relatives were carnivorous animals that measured approximately 7-10 feet long, with long necks and tails.

(Scientists discover fossil of dinosaur ancestor with surprising croc-like appearance, NSF)

The dinosaur, the third found in southwestern Tanzania by the scientists, is a large, long-necked titanosaur, a type of sauropod.

(New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail offers clues to evolution of Africa's ecosystems, National Science Foundation)

Its fossil remains were recovered from Cretaceous Period (70-100 million years ago) rocks in southwestern Tanzania.

(Paleontologists discover new species of sauropod dinosaur in Tanzania, National Science Foundation)

Paleontologists working in Tanzania have identified a new species of hyaenodont, a type of extinct meat-eating mammal.

(Fossil discovery in Tanzania reveals ancient bobcat-sized carnivore, National Science Foundation)

A country in southeastern Africa, bordering the Mozambique Channel, between South Africa and Tanzania.

(Mozambique, NCI Thesaurus)

MLN has been spreading in Kenya for the last six years, and has also been detected in Ethiopia, Rwanda and Tanzania.

(Researchers model ways to control deadly maize disease, SciDev.Net)

This study of ethnically diverse populations in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Botswana has shed light on regions of the genome not previously associated with skin color.

(New regions of the human genome linked to skin color variation in some African populations, National Institutes of Health)