CAROLINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Carolina mean? 

• CAROLINA (noun)
  The noun CAROLINA has 1 sense:

1. the area of the states of North Carolina and South Carolina

  Familiarity information: CAROLINA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAROLINA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The area of the states of North Carolina and South Carolina

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Carolina; Carolinas

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Carolina"):

N.C.; NC; North Carolina; Old North State; Tar Heel State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies)

Palmetto State; S.C.; SC; South Carolina (a state in the Deep South; one of the original 13 colonies)

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

South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)

 Context examples 

With this, the Bhut Jolokia loses its status as the world's hottest chilli, left behind by, reportedly, Carolina Reaper of the US and the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion of Trinidad and Tobago.

(Scientists claim decrease in hotness of Bhut Jolokia, Wikinews)

It was initially described among Native Americans belonging to the Haliwa-Saponi tribe of northeastern North Carolina.

(Hereditary Benign Intraepithelial Dyskeratosis, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a Medical University of South Carolina center.

(Hollings Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

In 2007, a team of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine developed a technology dubbed DREADD—Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs.

(Controlling Brain Circuits in Mice, NIH)

A team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tested the approach as an early intervention in preschool-age children newly diagnosed with peanut allergy.

(Preschoolers benefit from peanut allergy therapy, NIH)

They wondered whether smell might contribute to the reproductive isolation of black-capped and Carolina chickadees in a zone in Pennsylvania where birds are hybridizing.

(Scent brings songbirds to the yard, National Science Foundation)

A group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, east of South Carolina.

(Bermuda, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) and University of South Carolina Beaufort, both in the United States, reported warming seas appear to decrease the efficacy of the chemical compounds that corals release into the water to defend themselves from bacteria and encroaching seaweed, but these losses may be mitigated if there are large numbers of hungry fish around.

(Voracious fish defend coral reefs against warming, Wikinews)

Women who experience pregnancy loss and do not go on to have children are at greater risk of cardiovascular disease, such as heart disease and stroke, compared with women who have only one or two children, according to new research from the University of Cambridge and the University of North Carolina.

(Pregnancy losses and large numbers of children linked with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, University of Cambridge)

“What was particularly striking about their environment was the amount of cocoa they consume, which was easily 10 times more than most of us would get in a typical day,” says Dr. Brent M. Egan, a researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina who studies the effect of chocolate on blood pressure.

(Can Chocolate Really Be Good for You?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)