LATIN AMERICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Latin America mean? 

• LATIN AMERICA (noun)
  The noun LATIN AMERICA has 1 sense:

1. the parts of North America and South America to the south of the United States where Romance languages are spoken

  Familiarity information: LATIN AMERICA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LATIN AMERICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The parts of North America and South America to the south of the United States where Romance languages are spoken

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Latin America"):

Central America (the isthmus joining North America and South America; extends from the southern border of Mexico to the northern border of Colombia)

Meronyms (members of "Latin America"):

Latin American; Latino (a native of Latin America)

Domain region:

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

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

Domain member region:

llano (an extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America))

Derivation:

Latin-American (of or relating to the countries of Latin America or their people)

 Context examples 

It is common in Latin America but not in the United States.

(Chagas Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

It affects children, almost exclusively in Latin America and Asia.

(Hydroa Vacciniforme-Like Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The disease is transmitted by triatomine bugs ‒ blood-sucking insects known by several different names in Latin America (chinche, chirimacha and barbero, among others).

(Açaí fruit can transmit Chagas disease, SciDev.Net)

An international team of 60 scientists, working together as the 2ndFOR Network, has completed studies on the effects of forest conservation and secondary forest regeneration across 43 regions in Latin America.

(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)

In the gloomier scenarios discussed in the report, sea levels could rise 40 centimeters by 2050, causing losses of up to $1.2 billion in the 22 largest coastal cities in Latin America.

(Brazil's coastal cities more vulnerable to climate change, Agência Brasil)

The plant is a particularly important commercial crop in Latin America and Asia.

(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)

Despite the annual “bushfire season” in Australia, this was the first time smoke had been recorded arriving in Latin America in recent decades.

(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)

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)

First identified in Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia in the early 1990s, TR4 has since spread to Africa and now threatens the vast banana plantations of Latin America.

(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)

As it celebrated its 41st anniversary Thursday (Apr. 24), the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) unveiled the largest genetic repository in Latin America, which can store up to 750,000 seed samples.

(LatAm's largest gene bank unveiled in Brasília, Agência BRASIL)