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pinzón

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Pin⋅zón

  [peen-thawn]
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–noun
Mar⋅tín A⋅lon⋅zo  [mahr-teen ah-lawn-thaw] , c1440–93?, and his brother, Vi⋅cen⋅te Yá⋅ñez  [bee-then-te yah-nyeth] , c1460–1524?, Spanish navigators with Christopher Columbus.
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Pin·zón   (pĭn-zōn', pēn-thōn')   
Spanish navigator who commanded the Pinta on Christopher Columbus's first voyage to America (1492-1493). His brother Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (1460?-1524?) was the first European explorer of the Amazon River (1500).
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