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    MARIANA ISLANDS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan; discovered by Magellan in 1521play

    Synonyms:

    Ladrone Islands; Mariana Islands; Marianas

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

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

    Meronyms (parts of "Mariana Islands"):

    Northern Mariana Islands; Northern Marianas (a self-governing territory comprising all of the Mariana Islands except Guam)

    GU; Guam (the largest and southernmost island in the Marianas which is administered as a territory of the United States; it was ceded by Spain to the United States in 1898)

    Holonyms ("Mariana Islands" is a part of...):

    Federated States of Micronesia; Micronesia; TT (a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986)

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