Definition of Mesoamerica

1. Noun. Mexico and Central America.


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

Mesa
Mesa Verde National Park
Mesabi Range
Mesantoin
Mesasamkranti
Mescalero
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
Mesembryanthemum edule
Mesgegra
Meshach
Meshed
Mesicke
Meskwaki
Meskwakis
Mesmer
Mesoamerica (current term)
Mesoamerican
Mesoamerican pyramid
Mesoamerican pyramids
Mesoarchean
Mesocricetus auratus
Mesogothic
Mesokemic
Mesolithic
Mesolithic Age
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamian
Mesopotamian Arabic
Mesopotamians
Mesoproterozoic

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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