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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • The vast basin of the Amazon River in northern South America. It remains largely unpopulated and undeveloped, especially in the interior.

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Examples

  • Who my 'Amazonia' is you must discover from the book - but she goes right back to 'The Silver Pigs' - and she's trouble!

    Writing The Falco Series by Lindsey Davis 2010

  • Their main contact on New Amazonia is Lesa Pretoria, a master duelist with a few reservations about her own female-centric society.

    Free Fiction February - "Lucifugous" by Elizabeth Bear 2009

  • This rolling terrain on the plains of western Amazonia is high in biodiversity.

    Solimões-Japurá moist forest 2008

  • Two herons are uncommon elsewhere in Amazonia (Egretta tricolor and Nyctanassa violacea).

    Tocantins-Araguaia-Maranhão moist forests 2008

  • Meggers's account had enormous public impact — Amazonia is one of the wellsprings of the campaign to save rain forests.

    1491 2002

  • Meggers's account had enormous public impact — Amazonia is one of the wellsprings of the campaign to save rain forests.

    1491 2002

  • A scientist’s research that appears prominently in Amazonia ended up contacting me when her husband found out that I had plugged her papers in the book.

    A Conversation With Bestselling Author, James Rollins 2010

  • This was originally a region of rare endemic birds, fishes, and insects, although with a fairly low biodiversity as compared to neighboring regions in Amazonia.

    Maranhão Babaçu forests 2008

  • Their arms were a crescent shield, the bow and arrow, and the double axe, whence the name Amazonia was used as a distinctive appellation for that weapon (Amazonia securis,

    Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839

  • Beside the land of Chaldea is the land of Amazonia, that is the land of Feminye.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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