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SOUTH CHINA SEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)
Meronyms (parts of "South China Sea"):
Formosa; Taiwan (an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea)
China; Nationalist China; Republic of China; Taiwan (a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong)
Singapore; Singapore Island (an island to the south of the Malay Peninsula)
Gulf of Siam; Gulf of Thailand (an arm of the South China Sea between Indochina and the Malay Peninsula)
Holonyms ("South China Sea" is a part of...):
Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)
