LOWER CALIFORNIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lower California mean? 

• LOWER CALIFORNIA (noun)
  The noun LOWER CALIFORNIA has 1 sense:

1. a mountainous peninsula on northwest Mexico

  Familiarity information: LOWER CALIFORNIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOWER CALIFORNIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountainous peninsula on northwest Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Baja California; Lower California

Instance hypernyms:

peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Lower California"):

Tijuana (a Mexican city just to the south of San Diego on the Lower California peninsula; popular among American tourists for racetracks and bullfights)

Domain member region:

Akwa'ala (a community of Native Americans who speak a Hokan language and live in Baja California)

Holonyms ("Lower California" is a part of...):

Mexico; United Mexican States (a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810)

 Context examples 

There were a dozen requests for autographs—he knew them at sight; there were professional begging letters; and there were letters from cranks, ranging from the man with a working model of perpetual motion, and the man who demonstrated that the surface of the earth was the inside of a hollow sphere, to the man seeking financial aid to purchase the Peninsula of Lower California for the purpose of communist colonization.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)