YUCATAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Yucatan mean? 

• YUCATAN (noun)
  The noun YUCATAN has 2 senses:

1. a state of Mexico on the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula

2. a peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea

  Familiarity information: YUCATAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YUCATAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of Mexico on the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Yucatan"):

Merida (the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Yucatan; Yucatan Peninsula

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

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

 Context examples 

A Yucatan, Gottingen, or other pig breed that is bred specifically for its small size.

(Minipig, NCI Thesaurus)

A Yucatan or other pig breed that is bred specifically for its small size.

(Micropig, NCI Thesaurus)

A state in south eastern Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula.

(Campeche, NCI Thesaurus)

It's an expanded record of events that we were able to recover from within 'ground zero,' said Gulick, who led the study and co-led the International Ocean Discovery Program scientific drilling mission that retrieved the rocks from the impact site off the Yucatan Peninsula.

(Rocks at asteroid impact site record first day of dinosaur extinction, National Science Foundation)