PATAGONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Patagonia mean? 

• PATAGONIA (noun)
  The noun PATAGONIA has 1 sense:

1. region in southern South America between the Andes and the South Atlantic

  Familiarity information: PATAGONIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PATAGONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Region in southern South America between the Andes and the South Atlantic

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 "Patagonia"):

Patagonian Desert (a semiarid region in southern South America)

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

Argentina; Argentine Republic (a republic in southern South America; second largest country in South America)

Chile; Republic of Chile (a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast)

 Context examples 

The scientists were able to track the movement of populations from Alaska to as far south as Patagonia.

(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)

In Argentina, the smoke was visible to the naked eye from Patagonia, in the south of the country, to Santiago del Estero, in the north. The greatest concentrations were found at about 5,000 metres high, and therefore had no impact on surface visibility, according to the meteorological service.

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

A handful of telescopes deployed by the New Horizons team in a remote part of Patagonia, Argentina were in the right place at the right time to catch its fleeting shadow — an event known as an occultation – and were able to capture important data to help mission flyby planners better determine the spacecraft trajectory and understand the size, shape, orbit and environment around MU69.

(New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting, NASA)

Scientists have sequenced 15 ancient genomes spanning from Alaska to Patagonia and were able to track the movements of the first humans as they spread across the Americas at astonishing speed during the last Ice Age, and also how they interacted with each other in the following millennia.

(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)