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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 Brazilplay

  Familiarity information: GUIANA HIGHLANDS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GUIANA HIGHLANDS (noun)


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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