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melanesia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun melanesia has 1 sense
- melanesia(n = noun.location) Array - the islands in the southwestern part of Oceania; Array has parts: fiji islands, fijis, bismarck archipelago, new caledonia, solomon islands, solomons, new hebrides, republic of vanuatu, vanuatu
is a part of oceania, oceanica, austronesia
is a kind of archipelago
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