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LIMNOS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea; famous for a reddish-brown clay that has medicinal properties
Synonyms:
Lemnos; Limnos
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Holonyms ("Limnos" is a part of...):
Ellas; Greece; Hellenic Republic (a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil)
Aegean; Aegean Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia)
