YUCATAN PENINSULA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Yucatan Peninsula mean? 

• YUCATAN PENINSULA (noun)
  The noun YUCATAN PENINSULA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: YUCATAN PENINSULA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YUCATAN PENINSULA (noun)

Sense 1

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 Peninsula" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

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)