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Amazonia

American  
[am-uh-zoh-nee-uh] / ˌæm əˈzoʊ ni ə /

noun

  1. the region around the Amazon, in N South America.


Amazonia British  
/ æməˈzəʊnɪə /

noun

  1. the land around the Amazon river

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“Each time the museum responds to the rainforest — it can be Amazonia, Indonesia, Australia — the resultant acoustic archive grows.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

The researchers have collected data from both Amazonia and other parts of tropical America.

From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024

That longstanding notion, the archaeologists said, was fueled in part by how the Indigenous population was decimated by the arrival of Europeans, and by the raw materials of Amazonia.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2024

Early in 2024, Bufalino will kickstart the first cellulose lab in the Amazon, at the Federal Rural University of Amazonia, in Belém.

From National Geographic • Dec. 14, 2023

Then, once she knew the truth, she could bring the man, and the confession, to Scythe Possuelo, or anyone in the Amazonia Scythedom.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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