noun
a national park in Colorado containing prehistoric cliff dwellings; semiarid landscape
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑national park
• Part Holonyms: ↑Colorado, ↑Centennial State, ↑CO
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Mesa Verde National Park [Mesa Verde National Park]
a US ↑national park in south-west ↑Colorado. It was established in 1906 and covers 52 122 acres/21 109 ↑hectares. Tourists come to see the cliff houses and the Cliff Palace of the ↑Anasazi people which are more than 1 000 years old. The park includes mountains and deep valleys. It also has a museum. It was made a ↑World Heritage Site in 1978.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.