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NEW ZEALAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific
Synonyms:
New Zealand; New Zealand Islands
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 Zealand"):
North Island (the smaller but more populous of two main islands of New Zealand; separated from South Island by Cook Strait)
South Island (the larger but less populous of two main islands of New Zealand; separated from North Island by Cook Strait)
New Zealand (an independent country within the British Commonwealth; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1907; known for sheep and spectacular scenery)
Holonyms ("New Zealand" is a part of...):
Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An independent country within the British Commonwealth; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1907; known for sheep and spectacular scenery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)
Meronyms (parts of "New Zealand"):
Auckland (the largest city and principal port of New Zealand)
Christchurch (industrial city at the center of a rich agricultural region)
capital of New Zealand; Wellington (the capital of New Zealand)
Cook Strait (a narrow strait separating the North Island and South Island in New Zealand)
Meronyms (members of "New Zealand"):
Kiwi; New Zealander (a native or inhabitant of New Zealand)
Domain member region:
pom; pommy (a disparaging term for a British person)
returning officer (the official in each electorate who holds the election and returns the results)
Holonyms ("New Zealand" is a part of...):
New Zealand; New Zealand Islands (North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific)
Holonyms ("New Zealand" is a member of...):
British Commonwealth; Commonwealth of Nations (an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown)
British Empire (a former empire consisting of Great Britain and all the territories under its control; reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I; it included the British Isles, British West Indies, Canada, British Guiana; British West Africa, British East Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand)
Context examples:
A New Zealand rabbit with black coat color and coat genotype Si, VV, E, D, C, B.
(New Zealand Black Rabbit, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A New Zealand rabbit with a red or agouti coat and coat genotype w, VV, en, e.
(New Zealand Red Rabbit, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A country in the Pacific, comprised of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about midway between Peru and New Zealand, southeast of French Polynesia.
(Pitcairn, NCI Thesaurus)
Patients and investigators from six continents: Europe, Australia/ New Zealand, Africa, Asia, and North and South America, cooperate by participating in extensive clinical trials in the Adjuvant breast cancer setting.
(International Breast Cancer Study Group, NCI Thesaurus)
An albino New Zealand rabbit with coat genotype c, VV and eye color genotype np.
(New Zealand White Rabbit, NCI Thesaurus)
The theory that Earth has a solid core was first proposed in 1936 when female Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann reanalysed data from the magnitude-7.3 1929 earthquake that struck New Zealand's south island.
(Earth's Core Confirmed to Be Solid After 80 Years of Study, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Findings of this case study suggest that two copies of the APOE3ch variant, named after Christchurch, New Zealand where it was first identified, may protect against Alzheimer’s.
(Unique case of disease resistance reveals possible Alzheimer’s treatment, National Institutes of Health)
In the deal, Austrian, United Kingdom and New Zealand production sites are to be kept, with market sales expected to cover for the price in the long run.
(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)
On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary, from New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay, from Nepal, became the first humans to successfully climb to the peak of Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world.
(Everest, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
On March 9 (and March 10 in other time zones in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand), Mercury, which has been retrograde in your financial eighth house of other people’s money since February 16, will finally go direct.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
