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TANZANIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A republic in eastern Africa
Synonyms:
Tanzania; United Republic of Tanzania
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
African country; African nation (any one of the countries occupying the African continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Tanzania"):
capital of Tanzania; Dar es Salaam (the capital and largest port city of Tanzania on the Indian Ocean)
Dodoma (a city in the center of Tanzania that has been designated as the future capital)
Tanganyika (a former state in East Africa; united with Zanzibar in 1964 to form Tanzania)
Zanzibar (an island in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa; part of the United Republic of Tanzania)
Mbeya (a city in southwestern Tanzania)
Mwanza (a city in northern Tanzania on Lake Victoria)
Tabora (a city in western Tanzania)
Tanga (a port city in northeastern Tanzania on the Indian Ocean)
Serengeti; Serengeti Plain (a vast plain in Tanzania to the west of the Great Rift Valley known for its wildlife)
Kilimanjaro; Mount Kilimanjaro (the highest peak in Africa; located in northeastern Tanzania; 19,340 feet high)
Lake Malawi; Lake Nyasa (a long lake in southeastern Africa between Tanzania, Mozambique, and Malawi)
Olduvai Gorge (a gorge in northeastern Tanzania where anthropologists have found some of the earliest human remains)
Meronyms (members of "Tanzania"):
Tanzanian (a native or inhabitant of Tanzania)
Holonyms ("Tanzania" is a part of...):
East Africa (a geographical area in eastern Africa)
Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)
Derivation:
Tanzanian (of or relating to the republic of Tanzania or its people)
Context examples:
Intriguingly, people in other parts of Africa use very different sounds for the same purpose – for example, our colleague Brian Wood’s work has shown that Hadza honey-hunters in Tanzania make a melodious whistling sound to recruit honeyguides.
(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Unfortunately, increasing nutrient concentrations and the consequences of eutrophication have been recorded for most of the ancient lakes, including Victoria (on the border of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), Baikal (Russia), Valencia (Venezuela), Titicaca (Peru) and Ohrid (Macedonia).
(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)
Titanosaurs are best known from Cretaceous rocks in South America, but efforts by the team include new titanosaur species discovered in Tanzania, Egypt and other parts of the African continent.
(New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail offers clues to evolution of Africa's ecosystems, National Science Foundation)
The new dinosaur is called Shingopana songwensis, derived from the Swahili term shingopana for wide neck; the fossils were discovered in the Songwe region of the Great Rift Valley in southwestern Tanzania.
(Paleontologists discover new species of sauropod dinosaur in Tanzania, National Science Foundation)
The late paleontologist F. Rex Parrington first discovered T. rhadinus fossils in Tanzania in 1933.
(Scientists discover fossil of dinosaur ancestor with surprising croc-like appearance, NSF)
Paleontologists have identified a new species of titanosaurian, a member of the large-bodied sauropods that thrived during the final period of the dinosaur age, in Tanzania.
(Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania, NSF)
The newly discovered animal is called Pakakali rukwaensis, the name derived from the Swahili term pakakali, meaning fierce cat, and rukwaensis, the word for the Rukwa Rift region of the Great Rift Valley in southwestern Tanzania.
(Fossil discovery in Tanzania reveals ancient bobcat-sized carnivore, National Science Foundation)
