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honshu
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun honshu has 1 sense
- honshu(n = noun.location) hondo - the central and largest of the four main islands of Japan; between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean; regarded as the Japanese mainland; Array is a part of japan, japanese archipelago, japanese islands
has parts: capital of japan, edo, japanese capital, tokio, tokyo, yeddo, yedo, nagano, nagoya, omiya, osaka, yokohama, kobe, kyoto, hiroshima, toyohashi, toyonaki, toyota, asama, mount asama
is a kind of island
CIDE DICTIONARY
honshu, prop. n. [Jap.].
the main island of Japan. Together with the islands of Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku it forms the bulk of the land area of Japan. [WordNet 1.5]
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