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GUIANA HIGHLANDS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Guiana Highlands mean?
• GUIANA HIGHLANDS (noun)
The noun GUIANA HIGHLANDS has 1 sense:
1. a mountainous tableland in northern South America; extends from Venezuela into Guyana and northern Brazil
Familiarity information: GUIANA HIGHLANDS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mountainous tableland in northern South America; extends from Venezuela into Guyana and northern Brazil
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
plateau; tableland (a relatively flat highland)
Holonyms ("Guiana Highlands" is a part of...):
South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)
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