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BALBOA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spanish explorer who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Darien and became the first European to see the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean (1475-1519)

Synonyms:

Balboa; Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

navigator (in earlier times, a person who explored by ship)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The basic unit of money in Panama; equal to 100 centesimos

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

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

Panamanian monetary unit (monetary unit in Panama)

Meronyms (parts of "balboa"):

centesimo (a fractional monetary unit of several countries: Panama and Italy and Uruguay and Chile)

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