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US
/ˈjukəˌtæn/
]
NOUN
- a state of Mexico on the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula
- a peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea
How To Use Yucatan In A Sentence
- Other birds that utilize this ecoregion are yellow-crowned night-heron (Nyctanassa violacea), neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus), yucatan parrot (Amazona xantholora), Yucatán bobwhite (Colinus nigrogularis), and zenaida dove (Zenaida aurita). Petenes mangroves
- In fact, the gulf is unattrative all the way from the western shore of Mobile Bay to around Progreso, Yucatan and then it becomes pleasant again. Page 2
- I am guessing that tourism overflowing from the Cancun area has helped but it is also the main commercial hub in the Yucatan peninsula and the capitol of the state of Yucatan. Noise in Merida & Progreso
- Yucatán Maya mostly live in huts of plastered limestone or tree trunks with steep thatched roofs.
- Anthony Milne, an anguished soul in a Yucatan-style jacket and veldskoens, has been coming here since the poetry evenings started.
- Some forecast models are growing this system into a tropical storm and moving it northwestward toward the Yucatan Channel (the strait between Mexico and Cuba) in about 5 days. Tropical trouble brewing?
- Adjacent to the Mayan-dominant Yucatán state, Calkiní contained 34.9% of all the Maya speakers in Campeche in 2000. Campeche: on the edge of the Maya world
- It grows even more vigorously than the jackbean under less harsh conditions (in Yucatan, where droughtiness is always a problem the jackbean does better in years of low rainfall, whereas the velvetbean does better when rain fall is higher than normal, but still scarce). 28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture
- The topography of the entire Yucatan peninsula is essentially flat with elevation variations of less than 500 feet thereby providing no scenic mountainside retirement communities. Retirement on the Mexican Riviera
- Mayan shamans in the Yucatan, who go into caves to have visions, see caves as portals or doors that lead somewhere else.