MOJAVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mojave mean? 

• MOJAVE (noun)
  The noun MOJAVE has 3 senses:

1. a member of the North American Indian people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona and Nevada and California

2. a desert area in southern California and western Arizona

3. the Yuman language spoken by the Mohave

  Familiarity information: MOJAVE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOJAVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the North American Indian people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona and Nevada and California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Mohave; Mojave

Hypernyms ("Mojave" is a kind of...):

Hoka; Hokan (a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan languages)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A desert area in southern California and western Arizona

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Mohave; Mohave Desert; Mojave; Mojave Desert

Instance hypernyms:

desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)

Meronyms (parts of "Mojave"):

Death Valley (a desert area that is part of the Mojave Desert in eastern California and southwestern Nevada; contains the lowest point in North America)

Holonyms ("Mojave" is a part of...):

Arizona; AZ; Grand Canyon State (a state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon)

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

The Yuman language spoken by the Mohave

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Mohave; Mojave

Hypernyms ("Mojave" is a kind of...):

Yuman (a group of language of the Hokan family in Arizona and California and Mexico)

 Context examples 

The scientists used the Goldstone Solar System Radar in California's Mojave Desert to track the comet.

(Comet Flying by Earth Observed with Radar and Infrared, NASA)

Last year, the researchers documented a collapse of bird communities in the Mojave Desert over the last century – 29% of the 135 species that were present 100 years ago are less common and less widespread today.

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

The birds the model predicted would require the most extra water today, compared to 100 years ago, were the species that declined the most in the Mojave Desert, straddling the border between California and Nevada, over the past century.

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