New-world meaning
Designating or of a group of animals or plants native to the Western Hemisphere, esp. the Americas.
adjective
The continents North America and South America combined.
pronoun
The Western Hemisphere. The term was first used by the Italian historian Peter Martyr (1457–1526), whose De Rebus Oceanicis et Novo Orbe (1516) chronicled the discovery of America.
The Western Hemisphere.
proper name
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