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SOUTH AMERICAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A native or inhabitant of South America
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("South American" is a kind of...):
American (a native or inhabitant of a North American or Central American or South American country)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "South American"):
Venezuelan (a native or inhabitant of Venezuela)
Uruguayan (a native or inhabitant of Uruguay)
Kechua; Quechua (a member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire)
Peruvian (a native or inhabitant of Peru)
Paraguayan (a native or inhabitant of Paraguay)
Guyanese (a native or inhabitant of Guyana)
Salvadoran; Salvadorean; Salvadorian (a native or inhabitant of El Salvador)
Ecuadoran; Ecuadorian (a native or inhabitant of Ecuador)
Colombian (a native or inhabitant of Colombia)
Chilean (a native or inhabitant of Chile)
Maraco (a member of the South American people living in Argentina and Bolivia and Paraguay)
Guarani (a member of the South American people living in Paraguay and Bolivia)
Tupi (a member of the South American Indian people living in Brazil and Paraguay)
Brazilian (a native or inhabitant of Brazil)
Bolivian (a native or inhabitant of Bolivia)
Argentinian (a native or inhabitant of Argentina)
Holonyms ("South American" is a member of...):
South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the continent or countries of South America or their peoples
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)
Derivation:
South America (the nations of the South American continent collectively)
South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)
Context examples:
And just recently, the South American country of Paraguay was certified to be malaria-free.
(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)
A person living in the United States of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin.
(Multiple Hispanic, NCI Thesaurus)
The study also revealed surprising traces of Australasian ancestry in ancient South American Native Americans but no Australasian genetic link was found in North American Native Americans.
(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)
AIDS related research with a minimum of 20% (or $100,000) relevance to individuals of Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Central American, or South American descent.
(AIDS, Hispanic, NCI Thesaurus)
Inquiries are now being made at the offices, but I fear that the complete register of the stockholders of these South American concerns is in South America, and that some weeks must elapse before we can trace the shares.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was on the South American line when that was taken, but he was so fond of her that he couldn’t abide to leave her for so long, and he got into the Liverpool and London boats.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A cancer vaccine based on the immunogenic ganglioside GM2, The GM2-KLH Vaccine/QS21 vaccine consists of GM2 conjugated with KLH keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), a potent immunostimulant, and is admixed with the adjuvant QS21, a saponin fraction extracted from the bark of the South American tree Quillaja saponaria Molina.
(GM2-KLH Vaccine/QS21, NCI Thesaurus)
Lord John lay silent, wrapped in the South American poncho which he wore, while Challenger snored with a roll and rattle which reverberated through the woods.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You see, between you an' me close-tiled, I look on this South American business as a mighty serious thing, and if I have a pal with me I want a man I can bank on.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The type of these people, said he in his sonorous fashion, whether judged by cranial capacity, facial angle, or any other test, cannot be regarded as a low one; on the contrary, we must place it as considerably higher in the scale than many South American tribes which I can mention.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
