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Ma·yan
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tikal
an ancient Mayan city occupied c200 b.c. to a.d. 900, an important center of Mayan civilization, situated in Petén in the jungles of northern Guatemala and the site of significant archaeological discoveries in the late 1950s and early 1960s. -
yucatec
a member of an American Indian people of Yucatán, Mexico. -
balche
(among the Yucatec Maya) a drink made from the bark of a leguminous tree, Lonchocarpus violaceus, which is soaked in honey and water and fermented. -
bonampak
ancient Mayan site in Chiapas, S Mexico: discovered in 1946. -
calakmul
a ruined Mayan city in SE Mexico. -
cenote
(esp in the Yucatán peninsula) a natural well formed by the collapse of an overlying limestone crust: often used as a sacrificial site by the Mayas