DEATH VALLEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Death Valley mean? 

• DEATH VALLEY (noun)
  The noun DEATH VALLEY has 1 sense:

1. a desert area that is part of the Mojave Desert in eastern California and southwestern Nevada; contains the lowest point in North America

  Familiarity information: DEATH VALLEY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEATH VALLEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A desert area that is part of the Mojave Desert in eastern California and southwestern Nevada; contains the lowest point in North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)

Holonyms ("Death Valley" is a part of...):

CA; Calif.; California; Golden State (a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes)

Battle Born State; Nev.; Nevada; NV; Sagebrush State; Silver State (a state in the western United States)

Mohave; Mohave Desert; Mojave; Mojave Desert (a desert area in southern California and western Arizona)

 Context examples 

The latest findings, part of the UC Berkeley Grinnell Resurvey Project, come from comparing levels of species declines with computer simulations of how virtual birds must deal with heat on an average hot day in Death Valley, which can be in the 30s Celsius — 90s Fahrenheit — with low humidity.

(Collapse of desert bird populations likely due to heat stress from climate change, National Science Foundation)

One instant he was astride a broncho and flying through the fairy-colored Painted Desert country; the next instant he was gazing down through shimmering heat into the whited sepulchre of Death Valley, or pulling an oar on a freezing ocean where great ice islands towered and glistened in the sun.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)