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ZEALAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The largest island of Denmark and the site of Copenhagen
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Meronyms (members of "Zealand"):
Zealander (a native or inhabitant of Zealand)
Holonyms ("Zealand" is a part of...):
Danmark; Denmark; Kingdom of Denmark (a constitutional monarchy in northern Europe; consists of the mainland of Jutland and many islands between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea)
Context examples:
A rabbit that is derived from a cross between two different New Zealand strains of determinate or indeterminate coat genotype.
(New Zealand Hybrid Rabbit, NCI Thesaurus)
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)
An island group in the South Pacific Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand.
(Fiji, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
At the time of closest approach, based on current calculations to be about 2:18 p.m. EDT (11:18 a.m. PDT / 18:18 UTC), the asteroid will be roughly over New Zealand.
(Small Asteroid to Safely Pass Close to Earth Sunday, NASA)
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)
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)
A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and New Zealand and east of Samoa.
(American Samoa, 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)
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)
