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NEW GUINEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Pacific island to the north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; the western part is governed by Indonesia and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Meronyms (parts of "New Guinea"):
Independent State of Papua New Guinea; Papua New Guinea (a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea; in 1975 it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations)
Meronyms (members of "New Guinea"):
Papuan (a native or inhabitant of Papua New Guinea or New Guinea)
Holonyms ("New Guinea" is a part of...):
Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)
