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SUNDA ISLANDS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A chain of islands in the western Malay Archipelago
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)
Meronyms (parts of "Sunda Islands"):
Greater Sunda Islands (a chain of islands including Borneo and Celebes and Java and Sumatra)
Lesser Sunda Islands; Nusa Tenggara (a chain of islands forming a province of Indonesia to the east of Java; includes Bali and Timor)
Holonyms ("Sunda Islands" is a part of...):
East India; East Indies; Malay Archipelago (a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia)