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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border
Synonyms:
Land of Enchantment; N.M.; New Mexico; NM
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "New Mexico"):
Wheeler Peak (a mountain peak in northeastern New Mexico in the Rocky Mountains)
Sacramento Mountains (mountain range in New Mexico to the east of the Rio Grande)
Pecos; Pecos River (a tributary of the Rio Grande that flows southeastward from New Mexico through western Texas)
Llano Estacado (a large semiarid plateau forming the southern part of the Great Plains)
Guadalupe Mountains (a mountain range in southern New Mexico and western Texas; the southern extension of the Sacramento Mountains)
Gila; Gila River (a river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River)
Colorado Plateau (a large plateau to the south and west of the Rocky Mountains; abuts mountains on the north and east and ends in an escarpment overlooking lowlands to the south and west; the Grand Canyon is carved out of the southwestern corner)
Cimarron; Cimarron River (a river that rises in northeastern New Mexico and flows eastward into Oklahoma where it becomes a tributary of the Arkansas River)
Carlsbad Caverns (a group of caverns in southeastern New Mexico noted for their stalactites and stalagmites)
Canadian; Canadian River (a river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma)
Brazos; Brazos River (a river that rises in Mexico and flows across Texas into the Gulf of Mexico)
Chihuahuan Desert (a desert in western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico)
Taos (an artist colony in northern New Mexico)
Silver City (a town in southwestern New Mexico)
capital of New Mexico; Santa Fe (capital of the state of New Mexico; located in north central New Mexico)
Roswell (a town in southeast New Mexico)
Los Alamos (a town in north central New Mexico; in 1942 it was chosen as a nuclear research site where the first atomic bombs were produced)
Las Cruces (a town in southern New Mexico on the Rio Grande)
Gallup (a town in northwestern New Mexico near the Arizona border)
Farmington (a town in northwestern New Mexico)
Carlsbad (a town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border; potash deposits)
Albuquerque (the largest city in New Mexico; located in central New Mexico on the Rio Grande river)
Carlsbad Caverns National Park (a national park in New Mexico featuring what is probably the world's largest cavern with spectacular underground formations)
Holonyms ("New Mexico" is a part of...):
Southwest; southwestern United States (the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado)
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Context examples:
Asteroid 2004 BL86 was initially discovered on Jan. 30, 2004 by a telescope of the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) survey in White Sands, New Mexico.
(Asteroid to Fly By Earth on January 26, NASA)
This is the first pair of black holes to be seen as separate objects that are moving with respect to each other, and thus makes this the first black-hole 'visual binary,' said Greg Taylor, of the University of New Mexico (UNM).
(First-Ever Black-Hole 'Visual Binary' Revealed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
According to scientists who pieced together a detailed picture of the climate and ecology more than 200 million years ago at Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico, a site rich with fossil, the tropical climate swung wildly with extremes of drought and intense heat.
(Big dinosaurs steered clear of the tropics, NSF)
The announcement was made Friday by Lawrence Molnar, professor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, his students, and fellow astronomers from Apache Point Observatory (APO), New Mexico, and the University of Wyoming at the 229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Grapevine, Texas.
(Star Explosion Could Change Night Sky, VOA News)
"Oxford, New Mexico," snorted Tom contemptuously, "or something like that."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
