PAPUA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The southeastern part of Papua New Guinea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("Papua" is a kind of...):

part; region (the extended spatial location of something)

Holonyms ("Papua" is a part of...):

Independent State of Papua New Guinea; Papua New Guinea (a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea; in 1975 it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations)

Derivation:

Papuan (of or relating to Papua or its people or language)

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