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YUCATAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea
Synonyms:
Yucatan; Yucatan Peninsula
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)
Holonyms ("Yucatan" is a part of...):
Mexico; United Mexican States (a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A state of Mexico on the northern part 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 "Yucatan"):
Merida (the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan)
