PERU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Peru mean? 

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

1. a republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Peru; Republic of Peru

Instance hypernyms:

South American country; South American nation (any one of the countries occupying the South American continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Peru"):

Yerupaja (a mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,709 feet high))

Huascaran (a mountain in the Andes in Peru (22,205 feet high))

Arequipa (a city in southern Peru founded in 1540 on the site of an ancient Inca city)

capital of Peru; Lima (capital and largest city and economic center of Peru; located in western Peru; was capital of the Spanish empire in the New World until the 19th century)

Machu Picchu (Inca fortress city in the Andes in Peru discovered in 1911; it may have been built in the 15th century)

El Misti (the world's 2nd largest active volcano; located in the Andes in southern Peru)

Huainaputina (an inactive volcano in the Andes in southern Peru; last erupted in 1783)

Amazon; Amazon River (a major South American river; arises in the Andes and flows eastward into the South Atlantic; the world's 2nd longest river (4000 miles))

Andes (a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast)

Coropuna (a mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,083 feet high))

Meronyms (members of "Peru"):

Peruvian (a native or inhabitant of Peru)

Domain member region:

Inca; Inka (the small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s)

Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Anaru; MRTA; Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Peru; was formed in 1983 to overthrow the Peruvian government and replace it with a Marxist regime; has connections with the ELN in Bolivia)

Sendero Luminoso; Shining Path; SL (a terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru; is among the most ruthless guerilla organizations in the world; seeks to destroy Peruvian institutions and replace them with a Maoist peasant regime; is involved in the cocaine trade)

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

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

Holonyms ("Peru" is a member of...):

OAS; Organization of American States (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)

Derivation:

Peruvian (of or relating to or characteristic of Peru or its people)

 Context examples 

A high elevation plateau in southeastern Peru and western Bolivia, elevation about 3500 m.

(Altiplano, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

They were found in the Atacama Trench off the west coast of Chile and Peru at a depth of nearly 8,000 meters.

(Three New Species of Fish Found at Bottom of Pacific Ocean, VOA)

Balsam peru oil is used primarily in parfumery and skin care preparations.

(Balsam Peru Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in the Pacific, comprised of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about midway between Peru and New Zealand, southeast of French Polynesia.

(Pitcairn, NCI Thesaurus)

In a study of 6,000 people in Lima, Peru, researchers found that those whose diets were lacking in vitamin A had a 10-fold increased risk of developing TB from an infected family member.

(Vitamin A Supplement May Thwart Tuberculosis Infection, Jessica Berman/VOA)

In coordination with the volcano studies, the agency's C-20A gathered data over Amazonian forests in Peru, agricultural sites in Chile and glaciers on the Chilean/Argentinian border.

(NASA airborne research focuses on Andean volcanoes, NASA)

More than 90 per cent of this form of the disease occurs in Brazil, Bolivia, Ethiopia and Peru.

(Study uncovers cause of aggressive leishmaniasis strain, SciDev.Net)

For centuries, this practice of recharging mountain aquifers has been conducted in several regions of our planet, although the most-documented cases are found in the high-Andean regions of Peru and Ecuador.

(Researchers demonstrate that Sierra Nevada is home to the oldest underground water recharge system in Europe, University of Granada)

These were that Lord John had found himself some years before in that no-man's-land which is formed by the half-defined frontiers between Peru, Brazil, and Columbia.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They verified that a total of 14,003 species of seed plant (any plant that bears seeds) exist in the Amazon forest stretching from Brazil to Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, the Guianas, and Suriname.

(Inventory revises down Amazon tree species list, SciDev.Net)