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Lower California

American  
[loh-er] / ˈloʊ ər /

Lower California British  

noun

  1. Spanish name: Baja California.  a mountainous peninsula of NW Mexico, between the Pacific and the Gulf of California: administratively divided into the states of Baja California (or Baja California Norte) and Baja California Sur

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Farther inland it rises to a height of several feet, with tough, India-rubber-like branches, and in Lower California it becomes a small tree.

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An expedition raised in the southern part of the State, for the purpose of invading the Mexican province of Lower California, appears to have miscarried.

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Two of these inhabit the mountains of California and Oregon, and the third, the high ranges of the peninsula of Lower California.

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America, coast and interior; breeds from Newfoundland, southern Minnesota, and British Columbia northward; winters from Nova Scotia and British Columbia south to Cuba and Lower California.

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The seeds of Pinus Parryana and Pinus cembroides, of Arizona and Lower California, are also called Piñons, and largely gathered by the Indians.

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