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CAPE SABLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A promontory on the far southern part of Nova Scotia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
foreland; head; headland; promontory (a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea))
Holonyms ("Cape Sable" is a part of...):
Nova Scotia (the Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A cape at the southwest tip of Florida; the southernmost part of the United States mainland
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
cape; ness (a strip of land projecting into a body of water)
Holonyms ("Cape Sable" is a part of...):
Everglades National Park (a national park in Florida containing an immense subtropical wilderness with mangrove swamps and rare birds and wild animals)
