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ELLICE ISLANDS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii
Synonyms:
Ellice Islands; Tuvalu
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)
Meronyms (parts of "Ellice Islands"):
Tuvalu (a small island republic on the Tuvalu islands; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it withdrew in 1975 and became independent of the United Kingdom in 1978)
Holonyms ("Ellice 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)
