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COLORADO PLATEAU
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large plateau to the south and west of the Rocky Mountains; abuts mountains on the north and east and ends in an escarpment overlooking lowlands to the south and west; the Grand Canyon is carved out of the southwestern corner
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
plateau; tableland (a relatively flat highland)
Meronyms (parts of "Colorado Plateau"):
Grand Canyon (the enormous gorge of the Colorado River in northern Arizona)
Holonyms ("Colorado Plateau" is a part of...):
Arizona; AZ; Grand Canyon State (a state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon)
Centennial State; CO; Colo.; Colorado (a state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains)
Land of Enchantment; N.M.; New Mexico; NM (a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border)
Beehive State; Mormon State; UT; Ut.; Utah (a state in the western United States; settled in 1847 by Mormons led by Brigham Young)
