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moluccas
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Noun moluccas has 1 sense
- moluccas(n = noun.location) spice islands - 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; Array is a part of dutch east indies, indonesia, republic of indonesia
is a kind of island
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