ARGENTINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Argentina mean? 

• ARGENTINA (noun)
  The noun ARGENTINA has 2 senses:

1. a republic in southern South America; second largest country in South America

2. type genus of the Argentinidae: argentines

  Familiarity information: ARGENTINA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARGENTINA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in southern South America; second largest country in South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Argentina; Argentine Republic

Instance hypernyms:

South American country; South American nation (any one of the countries occupying the South American continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Argentina"):

El Libertador (a mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high))

Bonete (a mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,546 feet high))

El Muerto (a mountain peak in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile (21,457 feet high))

Galan (a mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high))

Iguassu; Iguassu Falls; Iguazu; Iguazu Falls; Victoria Falls (a large waterfall on the border between Argentina and Brazil)

Laudo (a mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (20,997 feet high))

Llullaillaco (a mountain in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile (22,057 feet high))

Mercedario (a mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,210 feet high))

Nacimiento (a mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,302 feet high))

Ojos del Salado (a mountain in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile (22,572 feet high))

Parana; Parana River (a South American river; tributary of Rio de la Plata)

Pissis (a mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,241 feet high))

La Plata; Plata River; Rio de la Plata (an estuary between Argentina and Uruguay)

Tupungato (a mountain in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile (22,310 feet high))

Cachi (a mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high))

Andes (a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast)

Aconcagua (the highest mountain in the western hemisphere; located in the Andes in western Argentina (22,834 feet high))

Tierra del Fuego (an archipelago off southern South America; separated from the continent by the Strait of Magellan; islands are administered by Chile and by Argentina)

pampas (the vast grassy plains of northern Argentina)

Vicente Lopez (an industrial suburb of Buenos Aires)

Rosario (a port city on the Parana River in eastern central Argentina)

Moron (a city in Argentina, to the west of Buenos Aires)

Cordoba; Cordova (a city in central Argentina; site of a university founded in 1613)

Buenos Aires; capital of Argentina (capital and largest city of Argentina; located in eastern Argentina near Uruguay; Argentina's chief port and industrial and cultural center)

Triple Frontier (the border area where Argentina and Brazil and Paraguay meet; an active South American center for contraband and drug trafficking and money laundering; a suspected locale for Islamic extremist groups)

Patagonia (region in southern South America between the Andes and the South Atlantic)

Meronyms (members of "Argentina"):

Argentinian (a native or inhabitant of Argentina)

Holonyms ("Argentina" is a part of...):

South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)

Holonyms ("Argentina" is a member of...):

OAS; Organization of American States (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)

Derivation:

Argentinian (of or relating to or characteristic of Argentina or its people)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Type genus of the Argentinidae: argentines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Argentina; genus Argentina

Hypernyms ("Argentina" is a kind of...):

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "Argentina"):

argentine (any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes)

Holonyms ("Argentina" is a member of...):

Argentinidae; family Argentinidae (small marine soft-finned fishes with long silvery bodies; related to salmons and trouts)

 Context examples 

The team’s genomic analysis of populations of plants that make up the wild peanut species pointed to a region in northern Argentina known as Rio Seco.

(Peanut Genome Sequenced with Unprecedent Accuracy, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

A 2014 study found organic molecules and plant matter entombed in glass formed by an impact that occurred millions of years ago in Argentina.

(NASA Spacecraft Detects Impact Glass on Surface of Mars, NASA)

It is more common in developed nations, but a few countries in Latin America, including Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay are now approaching the levels of incidence seen in the developed world.

(Pesticides blamed for rise in colon cancer deaths, SciDev.Net)

A type of chamomile plant with daisy-like white flowers that is found in Europe, North America, and Argentina.

(English chamomile, NCI Dictionary)

The findings contradict the long-held assumption that crop failures in geographically distant breadbasket nations such as the United States, China and Argentina are unrelated.

(El Niño linked to widespread crop failures, SciDev.Net)

Until then, only nine eggs had been found worldwide—in China and Argentina—three of which with embryos, but all of them crushed and compacted.

(Brazil and China scientists unearth pterosaur eggs with preserved embryos, Agência Brasil)

A country in central South America, northeast of Argentina.

(Paraguay, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, east of southern Argentina.

(Falkland Islands (Malvinas), NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes a person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa whose family settled in a South or Central American country such as Argentina, Brazil, or Mexico.

(Black South or Central American, NCI Thesaurus)

A handful of telescopes deployed by the New Horizons team in a remote part of Patagonia, Argentina were in the right place at the right time to catch its fleeting shadow — an event known as an occultation – and were able to capture important data to help mission flyby planners better determine the spacecraft trajectory and understand the size, shape, orbit and environment around MU69.

(New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting, NASA)