Mayagüez

[mah-yah-gwes]

noun

1. a seaport in W Puerto Rico.

Mayagüez

/ majaˈɣwɛθ /

noun

1. a port in W Puerto Rico; needlework industry. Pop: 97 627 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

A former Marine, Ibarra said his unit took part in the Mayaguez incident that resulted in two of his buddies being left on an island near the Cambodian coast, where they were likely killed by the Khmer Rouge.

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She scribbled doodles and poems in her notebook while she attended Catholic school in nearby Mayagüez, eventually writing songs that she posted to SoundCloud under the Young Miko moniker.

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The researchers examined samples from six live sclerosponges that a diving team from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez collected off the shores of Puerto Rico and St. Croix, in the U.S.

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The brothers were winter ball teammates in Puerto Rico with Mayaguez after last season and played together for the Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic in March.

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Having a Puerto Rican institution take over the site would not only enable a smooth transition by tapping specialists already knowledgeable about the site — but would also signal how much the research community in Puerto Rico has grown, says Ubaldo Córdova Figueroa, a chemical engineer at UPR Mayagüez who led the drafting of the proposal.

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