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MEXICO

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Meaning:

A republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810

Synonyms:

Mexico; United Mexican States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

North American country; North American nation (any country on the North American continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Mexico"):

capital of Mexico; Ciudad de Mexico; Mexican capital; Mexico City (the capital and largest city of Mexico is a political and cultural and commercial and industrial center; one of the world's largest cities)

Monterrey (an industrial city in northeastern Mexico)

Nogales (a town in northern Mexico on the border of Arizona)

Oaxaca; Oaxaca de Juarez (a city of southeastern Mexico)

Orizaba (a city of east central Mexico (west of Veracruz); a popular resort)

Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza; Puebla; Puebla de Zaragoza (a city in south central Mexico (southeast of Mexico City) on the edge of central Mexican plateau)

Quintana Roo (a Mexican state on the eastern side of the Yucatan Peninsula)

San Luis Potosi (a city in central Mexico)

Santa Maria del Tule (a town in southeastern Mexico near Oaxaca; site of Ahuehuete, a giant Montezuma cypress)

Tabasco (a Mexican state on the Gulf of Campeche)

Tepic (a city in west central Mexico)

Tampico (a port city in eastern Mexico)

Torreon (a city in northern Mexico to the west of Monterrey)

Tuxtla Gutierrez (a city in southeastern Mexico)

Veracruz (a major Mexican port on the Gulf of Mexico in the state of Veracruz)

Villa Hermosa; Villahermosa (a city in southeastern Mexico; the capital of the state of Tabasco)

Chihuahuan Desert (a desert in western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico)

Citlaltepetl; Mount Orizaba; Mt Orizaba; Pico de Orizaba (an extinct volcano in southern Mexico between Mexico City and Veracruz; the highest peak in Mexico (18,695 feet))

Colima; Nevado de Colima; Volcan de Colima (an active volcano in southwestern Mexico)

Colorado; Colorado River (an important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States)

Gulf of California; Sea of Cortes (a gulf to the west of the mainland of Mexico)

Bay of Campeche; Golfo de Campeche; Gulf of Campeche (a part of the Gulf of Mexico to the west of Yucatan)

Gulf of Tehuantepec (an arm of the Pacific in southern Mexico)

Baja California; Lower California (a mountainous peninsula on northwest Mexico)

Rio Bravo; Rio Grande (a North American river; boundary between the United States and Mexico; flows into Gulf of Mexico)

Sierra Madre Occidental (a mountain range in northwestern Mexico that runs south from Arizona parallel to the Pacific coastline)

Sierra Madre Oriental (a mountain range in northeastern Mexico the runs parallel to the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico)

Ahuehuete; Tule tree (Mexico's most famous tree; a giant specimen of Montezuma cypress more than 2,000 years old with a girth of 165 feet at Santa Maria del Tule)

Yucatan; Yucatan Peninsula (a peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea)

Acapulco; Acapulco de Juarez (a port and fashionable resort city on the Pacific coast of southern Mexico; known for beaches and water sports (including cliff diving))

Ciudad Juarez; Juarez (a city in northern Mexico on the Rio Grande opposite El Paso)

Ciudad Victoria (a city in east central Mexico)

Coahuila (a state in northern Mexico; mostly high plateau)

Culiacan (a city in northwestern Mexico)

Durango; Victoria de Durango (a city in north central Mexico; mining center)

Guadalajara (a city in southwestern Mexico; a popular health resort and site of architecture from the Spanish colonial era)

Hermosillo (a city in northwestern Mexico near the Gulf of California)

Leon (a city in central Mexico)

Matamoros (a city in northeastern Mexico opposite Brownsville near the mouth of the Rio Grande)

Mazatlan (a port city in western Mexico on the Pacific Ocean; tourist center)

Mexicali (a city in northwestern Mexico near the California border)

Meronyms (members of "Mexico"):

Mexican (a native or inhabitant of Mexico)

Domain member region:

mole (spicy sauce often containing chocolate)

Mexican Revolution (a revolution for agrarian reforms led in northern Mexico by Pancho Villa and in southern Mexico by Emiliano Zapata (1910-1911))

Battle of Puebla (a battle in which Mexican forces defeated the French in 1862)

Chapultepec (a pitched battle in the Mexican War that resulted in a major victory for American forces over Mexican forces at a locality south of Mexico City (1847))

Apache (any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico); fought a losing battle from 1861 to 1886 with the United States and were resettled in Oklahoma)

Mexican-American; Mexicano (a Mexican (or person of Mexican descent) living in the United States)

conquistador (an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century))

Buena Vista (a pitched battle in the Mexican War in 1847; United States forces under Zachary Taylor defeated the Mexican forces under Santa Anna at a locality in northern Mexico)

chili; chili con carne (ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans)

enchilada (tortilla with meat filling baked in tomato sauce seasoned with chili)

tamal; tamale (dough stuffed with a meat mixture and sometimes wrapped in corn husks and steamed)

tortilla (thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour)

taco (a tortilla rolled cupped around a filling)

burrito (a flour tortilla folded around a filling)

tostada (a crisp flat tortilla)

frijoles refritos; refried beans (dried beans cooked and mashed and then fried in lard with various seasonings)

Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza; Puebla; Puebla de Zaragoza (a city in south central Mexico (southeast of Mexico City) on the edge of central Mexican plateau)

Holonyms ("Mexico" is a part of...):

Mesoamerica (Mexico and Central America)

Holonyms ("Mexico" is a member of...):

OAS; Organization of American States (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)

Derivation:

Mexican (of or relating to Mexico or its inhabitants)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A state in south western Mexico on the Pacific Ocean.

(Michoacan, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers at University of New Mexico believe they may have found a way to prevent Alzheimer's disease.

(Researchers May Have Found Way to Prevent Alzheimer's Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There were women of the cattle camps, and swarthy cigarette-smoking women of Old Mexico.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

First, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) telescope, which scans large swaths of the sky in optical light from New Mexico, imaged SDSS J0849+1114.

(Three Black Holes on Collision Course, NASA)

Previously unseen features include newly exposed continental connections across South America and Africa and new evidence for seafloor spreading ridges in the Gulf of Mexico.

(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)

Two years ago, the meat industry in the US was found to be responsible for a massive dead zone measuring more than 8,000 sq miles in the Gulf of Mexico.

(Oceans running out of oxygen at unprecedented rate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They say its strong magnetic field likely led to its being detected by a large radio-telescope in New Mexico known as the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA).

(Astronomers Discover New Planet Not Orbiting Any Star, VOA)

A state in south eastern Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula.

(Campeche, NCI Thesaurus)

A state in Mexico comprising the northern half of the Baja California peninsula.

(Baja California, NCI Thesaurus)

A state in Mexico comprising the southern half of the Baja California peninsula.

(Baja California Sur, NCI Thesaurus)