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HUASCARAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mountain in the Andes in Peru (22,205 feet high)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)
Holonyms ("Huascaran" is a part of...):
Peru; Republic of Peru (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)
Andes (a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast)