melanesia
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1. the islands in the southwestern part of Oceania (noun.location)
| instance hypernym | : | archipelago, |
| definition | : | a group of many islands in a large body of water (noun.object) |
| part holonym | : | fiji islands, fijis, |
| definition | : | a group of more than 800 islands (100 inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific; larger islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are of volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs; smaller islands are coral (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | bismarck archipelago, |
| definition | : | a group of islands in the southwestern Pacific to the northeast of New Guinea; part of Papua New Guinea (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | new caledonia, |
| definition | : | an island to the to the east of Australia and to the north of New Zealand (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | solomon islands, solomons, |
| definition | : | the northernmost islands are part of Papua New Guinea; the remainder form an independent state within the British Commonwealth (noun.location) |
| part meronym | : | oceania, oceanica, |
| definition | : | a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago) (noun.location) |
| part meronym | : | austronesia, |
| definition | : | islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia) (noun.location) |
| domain member category | : | cargo cult, |
| definition | : | (Melanesia) the followers of one of several millenarian cults that believe salvation will come in the form of wealth (`cargo') brought by westerners; some ascribe divine attributes to westerners on first contact (especially to missionaries) (noun.group) |
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