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Lower California

[ loh-er ]

Lower California

noun

  1. a mountainous peninsula of NW Mexico, between the Pacific and the Gulf of California: administratively divided into the states of Baja California (or Baja California Norte) and Baja California Sur Spanish nameBaja California
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

He recounts a gruesome attack, seen in “Lower California,” by a trio of killer whales on a gray whale and her baby.

These plants have long been in use among the Indians of Lower California, who esteem them highly for their medicinal qualities.

From California: fire at San Francisco; quartz mining; Lynch law; Chinamen; abortive expedition against Lower California, 415.

An expedition raised in the southern part of the State, for the purpose of invading the Mexican province of Lower California, appears to have miscarried.

A search of Lower California, near the border, also disclosed a burying ground with many of the graves packed with cans of the drug.

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