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    JAPANESE ARCHIPELAGO

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Oceanplay

    Synonyms:

    Japan; Japanese Archipelago; Japanese Islands

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

    archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

    Meronyms (parts of "Japanese Archipelago"):

    Ezo; Hokkaido; Yezo (the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshu)

    Hondo; Honshu (the central and largest of the four main islands of Japan; between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean; regarded as the Japanese mainland)

    Kyushu (the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan; contains coal fields)

    Shikoku (the smallest of the four main islands of Japan; to the south of Honshu and to the east of Kyushu; separated from Honshu by the Inland Sea; forested and mountainous)

    Osaka Bay (a bay of the western Pacific in southern Honshu)

    Holonyms ("Japanese Archipelago" is a part of...):

    Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)

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