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BALBOA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spanish explorer who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Darien and became the first European to see the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean (1475-1519)
Synonyms:
Balboa; Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
navigator (in earlier times, a person who explored by ship)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The basic unit of money in Panama; equal to 100 centesimos
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("balboa" is a kind of...):
Panamanian monetary unit (monetary unit in Panama)
Meronyms (parts of "balboa"):
centesimo (a fractional monetary unit of several countries: Panama and Italy and Uruguay and Chile)
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