| Aztec |
a group of Mexican and Central American Indian peoples; Nahuatl. [1/4 definitions] |
| banana republic |
(informal) a small, often politically unstable Central American country with a one-crop economy that is controlled by foreign capital (used as a derogatory label). |
| Costa Rica |
a Central American country between Panama and Nicaragua. |
| El Salvador |
a Central American country on the Pacific coast south of Guatemala. |
| gar |
any of various freshwater fish of North and Central America that have hard scales, a long thin body, and a long, toothed snout. |
| gopher |
a short-tailed burrowing rodent of North and Central America that has external cheek pouches; pocket gopher. [1/2 definitions] |
| Guatemala |
a Central American country south of Mexico. [1/2 definitions] |
| Honduras |
a Central American country between Guatemala and Nicaragua. |
| hurricane |
a powerful cyclonic storm that originates in the West Indian region of the Atlantic Ocean or in the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean near Mexico and Central America. A hurricane is characterized by heavy rains along with winds exceeding 73 miles, or 119 kilometers, per hour. |
| indigo bunting |
a small finchlike bird of North and Central America, the male of which is dark blue. |
| mamoncillo |
a fruit-bearing tree that grows primarily in Central America and the Caribbean and produces a small fruit with a rigid green skin and a sweet fleshy interior. The mamoncillo fruit is called by different names in different countries and is sometimes called a Spanish lime. |
| Mayan |
an American Indian language family of Central America, consisting of approximately twenty-five languages. [1/3 definitions] |
| Middle America |
the Western Hemisphere between the United States and South America, including Mexico, Central America, and usu. the West Indies. [1/2 definitions] |
| Nahuatl |
a member of a group of Indian peoples of Mexico and Central America that includes the Aztecs. [1/2 definitions] |
| Nicaragua |
a Central American country between Honduras and Costa Rica. |
| Panama |
a Central American country on the border of South America. [2/3 definitions] |
| platy2 |
any of several brightly colored, small freshwater fishes of Mexico and Central America that are often kept in aquariums. |
| poinsettia |
a shrub native to Mexico and Central America that bears small yellow flowers surrounded by large, usu. red bracts. |
| rattail cactus |
a small, tropical cactus of Mexico and Central America having thin, drooping stems and bearing bright crimson flowers, widely cultivated as a houseplant. |
| salao |
(Spanish; slang) very unlucky (used in Central America and the Caribbean). |
| teosinte |
any of several grasses of the genus Zea native to Mexico and Central America that are similar to corn. Scientists believe that corn was domesticated from a type of teosinte. |