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1. a group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea; settled by the Portuguese but taken by the Dutch who made them the center for a spice monopoly, at which time they were known as Spice Islands (noun.location)
| instance hypernym | : | island, |
| definition | : | a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water (noun.object) |
| part meronym | : | dutch east indies, indonesia, republic of indonesia, |
| definition | : | a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions (noun.location) |
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