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/sˈɛntrəl əmˈɛrəkə/ Listen

Central America

noun

The isthmus joining North America and South America; extends from the southern border of Mexico to the northern border of Colombia.

The nations of Central America collectively.

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... Adam remarked. "Worth nearly five pounds in English money, but a collector might give you more if it's as old as it looks. One used to see onzas in Cuba, and native merchants in Central America, who hadn't much use for banks, liked to get them. Now, ...

— The Buccaneer Farmer - Published In England Under The Title "Askew's Victory" • Harold Bindloss

... zoological and botanical provinces will be proved by the identity of the marine beings which inhabited the intervening space. Thus, for example, the land quadrupeds and shells of the valley of the Mississippi, of central America, and of the West India islands differ very considerably, yet their remains are all washed down by rivers flowing from these three zoological provinces into the ...

— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

... which culminated in the "Ostend Manifesto" of Buchanan, Mason, and Soule, had its chief impetus in the thousands of slaves whom Americans had poured into the island. Finally, the series of filibustering expeditions against Cuba, Mexico, and Central America were but the wilder and more irresponsible attempts to secure ...

— The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America - 1638-1870 • W. E. B. Du Bois

... voyages to the New World, in the course of which he explored the Caribbean Sea, the mouth of the Orinoco River, and the eastern coast of Central America. He lived and died in the belief that he had actually reached the mainland of Asia and the realms of the Great Khan of Cathay. The name West Indies still remains as a ...

— EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY • HUTTON WEBSTER

... System—a trunk microwave radio relay system that links the countries of Central America ...

— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

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