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LLANO ESTACADO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large semiarid plateau forming the southern part of the Great Plains
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
plateau; tableland (a relatively flat highland)
Holonyms ("Llano Estacado" is a part of...):
Land of Enchantment; N.M.; New Mexico; NM (a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border)
OK; Okla.; Oklahoma; Sooner State (a state in south central United States)
Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)
Great Plains; Great Plains of North America (a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans)