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KYUSHU
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The southernmost of the four main islands of Japan; contains coal fields
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Meronyms (parts of "Kyushu"):
Kitakyushu (a Japanese city on northern Kyushu)
Fukuoka (a city in southern Japan on Kyushu)
Nagasaki (a city in southern Japan on Kyushu; a leading port and shipbuilding center; on August 9, 1945 Nagasaki became the second populated area to receive an atomic bomb)
Minamata Bay (a bay on the west coast of Kyushu; in the 1950s industrial wastes caused mercury poisoning among the Japanese people who ate fish from Minamata Bay)
Holonyms ("Kyushu" is a part of...):
Japan; Japanese Archipelago; Japanese Islands (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 Ocean)
