NORTH AMERICA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The nations of the North American continent collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("North America" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Meronyms (members of "North America"):

American (a native or inhabitant of a North American or Central American or South American country)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

continent (one of the large landmasses of the earth)

Meronyms (parts of "North America"):

Rockies; Rocky Mountains (the chief mountain range of western North America; extends from British Columbia to northern New Mexico; forms the continental divide)

Great Plains; Great Plains of North America (a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans)

Coast Mountains; Coast Range (a string of mountain ranges along the Pacific coast of North America from southeastern Alaska to Lower California)

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

Central America (the isthmus joining North America and South America; extends from the southern border of Mexico to the northern border of Colombia)

Mesoamerica (Mexico and Central America)

North American country; North American nation (any country on the North American continent)

Meronyms (members of "North America"):

North American (a native or inhabitant of North America)

Domain member region:

Latin America (the parts of North America and South America to the south of the United States where Romance languages are spoken)

canon; canyon (a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall)

continental divide (the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico))

Plantation (a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America))

plainsman (an inhabitant of a plains region (especially the Great Plains of North America))

Holonyms ("North America" is a part of...):

northern hemisphere (the hemisphere that is to the north of the equator)

New World; occident; western hemisphere (the hemisphere that includes North America and South America)

Occident; West (the countries of (originally) Europe and (now including) North America and South America)

America (North America and South America and Central America)

Credits

Context examples:

A type of chamomile plant with daisy-like white flowers that is found in Europe, North America, and Argentina.

(English chamomile, NCI Dictionary)

Denotes a person having origins in one of the indigenous peoples of North America, who lived on the continent prior to the European colonization.

(American Indian, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of nine species of flowering plants in the Family Asteraceae, all native to eastern North America.

(Echinacea, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers were able to dismiss a longstanding theory that a group called Paleoamericans existed in North America before Native Americans.

(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)

A Native American (NA) is a person having origins in one of the indigenous peoples of North America, who lived on the continent prior to the European colonization.

(Native American, NCI Thesaurus)

They say that ivory from western linage walruses must have been supplied by the Norse Greenlanders – by hunting and perhaps also by trade with the indigenous peoples of Arctic North America.

(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)

An herbal remedy made from the dried root of Chamaelirium luteum, a lily native to the eastern and southern parts of North America.

(Chamaelirium luteum Root, NCI Thesaurus)

Powassan is the only endemic flavivirus spread by ticks in North America, where it is considered a re-emerging virus.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)

From June 1 through July 15, researchers from across North America will fan out each evening across the Great Plains, where storms are more common at night than during the day.

(Scientists tackle mystery of thunderstorms that strike at night, NSF)

Cultivated in India and North America, ashwagandha (Withania somnifera Dunal or Indian ginseng) belongs to the Solanaceae (nightshade) family.