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Oasisamerica

Oasisamerica proper noun: a broad cultural area of pre-Columbian southwestern North America, between Utah and Chihuahua, and bordering the Gulf of California, on the Mexican mainland.

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Proper noun

Oasisamerica

  1. A broad cultural area of pre-Columbian southwestern North America, between Utah and Chihuahua, and bordering the Gulf of California, on the Mexican mainland.

Origin of Oasisamerica

From oasis + America. Coined by German-Mexican anthropologist Paul Kirchhoff in 1954.

Questions about Oasisamerica

What does Oasisamerica mean?
Oasisamerica means a broad cultural area of pre-Columbian southwestern North America, between Utah and Chihuahua, and bordering the Gulf of California, on the Mexican mainland.
What part of speech is Oasisamerica?
Oasisamerica is a proper noun.

Words near Oasisamerica in the dictionary

  1. oasean
  2. oases
  3. OASI
  4. oasification
  5. oasis
  6. Oasisamerica
  7. Oasisamerican
  8. Oasisamericans
  9. oasises
  10. oasisless
  11. oasislike

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