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Vespucci

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Ves·puc·ci  (vs-pch, -py-), Amerigo Latin name Americus Vespucius. 1454-1512.
Italian navigator and explorer of the South American coast. America was named in his honor.
Vespucci [vɛˈspuːtʃɪ]
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(Biographies / Vespucci, Amerigo (?1454-1512) M, Florentine, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: navigator) Amerigo (ameˈriːgo), Latin name Americus Vespucius. ?1454-1512, Florentine navigator in the New World (1499-1500; 1501-02), after whom the continent of America was named
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Noun1.Vespucci - Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South AmericaVespucci - Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America; America was named in his honor (1454-1512)
Americus Vespucius, Amerigo Vespucci
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This man was called Raphael Hythlodaye and had been with Amerigo Vespucci in the three last of his voyages, "saving that in the last voyage he came not home again with him.
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