Menéndez de Avilés: Meaning and Definition of

Me•nén•dez de A•vi•lés

Pronunciation: (me-nen'deth e ä"vē-les'), [key]
  1. 1519–74, Spanish admiral and colonizer: founder of St. Augustine, Florida 1565.
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