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LATIN AMERICA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The parts of North America and South America to the south of the United States where Romance languages are spoken
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Meronyms (parts of "Latin America"):
Central America (the isthmus joining North America and South America; extends from the southern border of Mexico to the northern border of Colombia)
Meronyms (members of "Latin America"):
Latin American; Latino (a native of Latin America)
Domain region:
North America (a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama)
South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)
Domain member region:
llano (an extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America))
Derivation:
Latin-American (of or relating to the countries of Latin America or their people)
Context examples:
In contrast, deforestation in Latin America, insular South-East Asia (which include Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Timor Leste) and Madagascar derived low agricultural benefits and high environmental costs.
(Most countries lose out with forest-to-farm conversions, SciDev.Net)
Some 1.8–4.1 billion people living in the developing countries of South Asia, South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are vulnerable to heat-related stress, and lack access to technology to cool their living spaces, according to new estimates.
(Billions at risk from heat stress at home, SciDev.Net)
Models of forest age in 2008 show that 17 percent of the forest area in lowland Latin America consists of young second-growth forest (1-20 years) and 11 percent consists of intermediate age forest (20-60 years).
(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)
Smoke from Australia entered Latin America through Chile because air circulation in the Southern Hemisphere always goes from west to east.
(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)
This amount is equivalent to 31.09 trillion kilograms of CO2, which equals all the carbon emissions from fossil fuel use and other industrial processes in all the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean from 1993 to 2014.
(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)
The smoke reached Latin America more than a month after the fires started in Australia, for example, after being dispersed by Pacific Ocean winds in its path.
(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)
