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STRAIT OF MAGELLAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The strait separating South America from Tierra del Fuego and other islands to the south of the continent; discovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1520; an important route around South America before the Panama Canal was built
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
sound; strait (a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water)
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