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Definition of Mesoamerica
1. Noun. Mexico and Central America.
Terms within: Mexico, United Mexican States
Group relationships: North America
Derivative terms: Mesoamerican
Definition of Mesoamerica
1. Proper noun. A pre-Columbian cultural region extending from the southern part of Mexico to an area that comprises some parts of the countries of Central America ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mesoamerica
Literary usage of Mesoamerica
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Maya City Planning and the Calendar by Anthony F. Aveni, Horst Hartung (1986)
"... CEREMONIAL ARCHITECTURE IN ANCIENT Mesoamerica Macgowan (1945) appears to have
been the first to point out t all over Mesoamerica the axes that define ..."
2. Cover Crops in Hillside Agriculture: Farmer Innovation with Mucuna by Daniel Buckles, Bernard Triomphe, Gustavo Sain (1998)
"Velvetbean use in Mesoamerica Enthusiasm for velvetbean in the United States ...
Velvetbean and knowledge of its uses in Mesoamerica can be linked to ..."
3. Adventure Guide to Belize by Carol O'Donnell (2003)
"In Mesoamerica, grasslands turned to deserts and large herbivores disappeared,
... Since Mesoamerica was, and still is, rich in edible plants, ..."
4. Mexico's Pacific Coast by Vivien Lougheed (2004)
"Estimates are that in Mesoamerica, the occupied parts of pre-Columbian Mexico
and Central ... In Mesoamerica the grasslands turned to deserts, and the large ..."
5. The Town of San Felipe and Colonial Cacao Economies by Eugenio Piñero (1994)
"Certain places in Mesoamerica where cacao was first domesticated in pre-Columbian
times possess suitable conditions for its cultivation. ..."
6. OECD Territorial Reviews by OECD Staff, SourceOECD (Online service) (2006)
"Defining the unit of analysis - Mesoamerica The unit of analysis for this ...
The term Mesoamerica has been widely used since the June 2001 adoption of the ..."
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