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Definition of Americus Vespucius
1. Noun. Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America; America was named in his honor (1454-1512).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Americus Vespucius
Literary usage of Americus Vespucius
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Account of Discoveries in the West Until 1519: And of Voyagers to and by Conway Robinson, Robert Greenhow, Virginia Historical Society (1848)
"CHAPTER X. Of the voyage of Americus Vespucius with Alonzo de Ojeda and of other
... Americus Vespucius was born in Florence on the 9th of March 1451, ..."
2. American History Stories by Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick (1888)
"But people were not very careful in those days about being" fair" to anybody or
anything: and so, when in 1497 Americus Vespucius made a voyage to the new ..."
3. American History by James Alton James, Albert Hart Sanford (1919)
"When the news of Cabral's discovery reached Portugal, an expedition was sent out,
with which went Americus Vespucius, ..."
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