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PAPUA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The southeastern part of Papua New Guinea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("Papua" is a kind of...):
part; region (the extended spatial location of something)
Holonyms ("Papua" is a part of...):
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)
Derivation:
Papuan (of or relating to Papua or its people or language)