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OCEANICA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)
Synonyms:
Oceania; Oceanica
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)
Meronyms (parts of "Oceanica"):
Melanesia (the islands in the southwestern part of Oceania)
Micronesia (the islands in the northwestern part of Oceania)
Polynesia (the islands in the eastern part of Oceania)
Holonyms ("Oceanica" is a part of...):
Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)
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