Yucatan meaning

yo͝okə-tăn, -tän
A peninsula mostly in southeast Mexico between the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. It includes many Mayan and Toltec sites and is separated from Cuba by the Yucatán Channel.
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Peninsula comprising SE Mexico, Belize, & part of W Guatemala: it separates the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean: c. 70,000 sq mi (181,299 sq km)
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State of Mexico, on this peninsula: 15,189 sq mi (39,339 sq km); cap. Mérida.
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Yucatan Sentence Examples

  • YUCATAN, a peninsula of Central America forming the S.E.

  • The climate of Yucatan is hot and dry; the Gulf Stream, which sweeps by its N.

  • CHICHEN-ITZA, or CHICHEN, an ancient ruined city of Yucatan, Mexico, situated 22 m.

  • ,coast of Yucatan in February 1517, when on a slave-hunting .expedition.

  • Brinton, The American Race (New York, 1891) and Ancient Phonetic Alphabets of Yucatan; Desire Charnay, The Ancient Cities of the New World (Transl.

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