Mendocino

[ men-duh-see-noh ]

/ ˌmɛn dəˈsi noʊ /

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Cape, a cape in NW California: the westernmost point in California.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

The Pomos of Lake and Mendocino counties make especially fine baskets for every purpose.
Stories of California|Ella M. Sexton
Plainly lost, lost somewhere along what are now known as Mendocino, and Blanco, and Flattery.
Vikings of the Pacific|Agnes C. Laut
On August 2, somewhere near what is now Cape Mendocino, daylight revealed a rim of green forested hills above the silver sea.
Vikings of the Pacific|Agnes C. Laut
He had missed the Columbia the previous year by standing off the coast north of Mendocino.
Vikings of the Pacific|Agnes C. Laut

Thence, after suffering other tempests, they finally sighted Cape Mendocino in forty-four degrees of latitude.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXI, 1624|Various