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    YEZO

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshuplay

    Synonyms:

    Ezo; Hokkaido; Yezo

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

    island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

    Meronyms (parts of "Yezo"):

    Asahikawa (a city on western Hokkaido that is the center of a fertile agricultural area)

    Sapporo (a commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido)

    Holonyms ("Yezo" 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)

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