Lima

Examples

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• We've gone from Lima, Ohio to Dublin, Ireland, and we've done four countries, and... it's just been an amazing experience.

  Glee: The Concert Movie (2011)

• In Peru, women from squatter families in Lima's shantytowns planted trees on barren ground.

  Academic text (1990)

• We are heading to Lima, officially leaving the Amazon.

  Kara and Nate

• My mother and I went to Lima, Peru, to wait until the end of the war.

  Fiction book (1997)

• With this slogan, the residents marched through the center of Lima to demand basic services.

  Academic text (1999)

• Editor's note: Peruvian police arrested founder of Sendero Luminoso Abimael Guzman in Lima on 12 September 1992.

  Academic text (1992)

• The president spoke Sunday evening in Lima, Peru, as an Asia-Pacific summit ended.

• Don't miss Peru's colonial cities, especially Lima, the capital, with its distinctive Spanish heritage and incomparable cuisine.

• We are heading to Lima, officially leaving the Amazon.

Compounds

L

lima bean

14 2.5

A flat pale green or white bean that people cook and eat

L

lima bean plant

1 2.8

A plant that grows pods with large flat beans people eat

Surface Forms

Etymology