Definition of Lower California

1. Noun. A mountainous peninsula on northwest Mexico.

Exact synonyms: Baja California
Geographical relationships: Akwa'ala
Group relationships: Mexico, United Mexican States
Terms within: Tijuana
Generic synonyms: Peninsula

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lower California

Low Sunday
Lowe's syndrome
Lowe-Terrey-MacLachlan syndrome
Lowell
Lowell Jackson Thomas
Lowell Thomas
Lowellian
Lowenberg's canal
Lowenberg's forceps
Lowenberg's scala
Lowenstein-Jensen culture medium
Lowenstein-Jensen medium
Lower's ring
Lower's tubercle
Lower-Normandy
Lower California (current term)
Lower Canada
Lower Carboniferous
Lower Carboniferous period
Lower Egypt
Lower Lusatian
Lower Mainland
Lower Paleolithic
Lower Peninsula
Lower Saxony
Lower Silesian
Lower Sorbian
Lower Wendish
Lowestoft
Lowland Scots

Literary usage of Lower California

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciencesby California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1895)
"... principally from Lower California. William J. Fox 1 Ou u Collection of ... of Lower California. Xo. 4. JG Cooper. 130 Description of « New Species of ..."

2. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1909)
"8°, Lower California Company. Lower California : its geography and characteristics, with a sketch of the grant and purposes of the Lower California Company. ..."

3. A History of California: The American Period by Robert Glass Cleland (1922)
"Smith's narrative of this Lower California expedition is particularly valuable because of the picture he draws of the hardships the goldseekers had to ..."

4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1898)
"On March 17, 1897, I shot a fully adult Pacific Kittiwake, at San Ge Gerónimo Island, Lower California, about 200 miles south of the united Sta States ..."

5. Resources of the Pacific Slope: A Statistical and Descriptive Summary of the by John Ross Browne (1869)
"The American surveyors estimate that the peninsula of Lower California /-' and its islands contain 200000 square miles of land, ..."

6. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"But the central authorities, probably deeming Lower California of little account, replied that he should confine his visits to Alta California.1 At that ..."

7. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"Guadalupe Island, Lower California, J>r. ... Lower California has several, all of the tropical ... Lower California ..."

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