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Mesoamerica

Mesoamerica proper noun: a pre-Columbian cultural region extending from southern Mexico to roughly the area that comprises modern Honduras and El Salvador.

Proper noun

Mesoamerica

  1. A pre-Columbian cultural region extending from southern Mexico to roughly the area that comprises modern Honduras and El Salvador.
    • Intentional skull reshaping is found in burials across Asia, Europe and Mesoamerica.2023 August 18, Mindy Weisberger, “Long-standing mystery of modified human skulls in ancient Japan solved by new analysis”, in CNN

Mesoamerica meaning in Bengali

Mesoamerica in Bengali

a pre-Columbian cultural region encompassing southern Mexico and Central America
মাঝমার্কিন majhomarkin

Origin of Mesoamerica

Borrowed from Spanish Mesoamérica, coined by German-Mexican anthropologist Paul Kirchhoff in 1943. By surface analysis, meso- + America.

Words formed from Mesoamerica

Questions about Mesoamerica

What does Mesoamerica mean?
Mesoamerica means a pre-Columbian cultural region extending from southern Mexico to roughly the area that comprises modern Honduras and El Salvador.
What is Mesoamerica in Bengali?
Mesoamerica in Bengali is মাঝমার্কিন (majhomarkin). See Mesoamerica meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is Mesoamerica?
Mesoamerica is a proper noun.

Words near Mesoamerica in the dictionary

  1. meso-region
  2. meso-regions
  3. meso-zeaxanthin
  4. mesoaccumbal
  5. mesoadenohypophysis
  6. Mesoamerica
  7. mesoamerican
  8. Mesoamerican Long Count calendar
  9. Mesoamerican nephropathy
  10. Mesoamericanist
  11. Mesoamericanists

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