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NULLARBOR PLAIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A vast arid plain of southern Australia stretching inland from the Great Australian Bight; has sparse vegetation and no surface water and is almost uninhabited; the site of a major rocket research center
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
champaign; field; plain (extensive tract of level open land)
Holonyms ("Nullarbor Plain" is a part of...):
Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)