Mayagüez

[ mah-yah-gwes ]

noun

1. a seaport in W Puerto Rico.

Mayagüez

/ majaˈɣwɛθ /

noun

1. a port in W Puerto Rico; needlework industry. Pop: 97 627 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

She scribbled doodles and poems in her notebook while she attended Catholic school in nearby Mayagüez, eventually writing songs that she posted to SoundCloud under the Young Miko moniker.

From Los Angeles Times

The researchers examined samples from six live sclerosponges that a diving team from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez collected off the shores of Puerto Rico and St. Croix, in the U.S.

From New York Times

The brothers were winter ball teammates in Puerto Rico with Mayaguez after last season and played together for the Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic in March.

From Washington Times

Having a Puerto Rican institution take over the site would not only enable a smooth transition by tapping specialists already knowledgeable about the site — but would also signal how much the research community in Puerto Rico has grown, says Ubaldo Córdova Figueroa, a chemical engineer at UPR Mayagüez who led the drafting of the proposal.

From Scientific American

Bill Greener, deputy press secretary to President Gerald Ford during the high-tension 1975 Mayaguez incident, recalled that Hoffman filed his story on the seizing of the ship “faster than we could get the information to the president of the United States.”

From Seattle Times