MASSIF CENTRAL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountainous plateau in southern France that covers almost one sixth of the country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

massif (a block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range)

plateau; tableland (a relatively flat highland)

Holonyms ("Massif Central" is a part of...):

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

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