MASCARENE ISLANDS

Meaning of MASCARENE ISLANDS in English

Pronunciation: ˌ mas-k ə - ' r ē n

Function: geographical name

islands W Indian Ocean E of Madagascar including Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodrigues

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary. Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка. 2012

MASCARENE ISLANDS — geographical name islands W Indian Ocean E of Madagascar including Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodrigues
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
MASCARENE ISLANDS — geographical name islands W Indian Ocean E of Madagascar including Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodrigues
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
MASCARENE ISLANDS — French les Mascareignes, collectively, the islands of Runion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues, which are situated in a line along a submarine …
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MASCARENE ISLANDS — Маскаренские острова
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
MASCARENE ISLANDS — геогр. Маскаренские острова
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
MASCARENE ISLANDS — Маскаренские о-ва
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
MASCARENE ISLANDS — геогр. Маскаренские острова
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
MASCARENE ISLANDS — геогр. Маскаренские острова
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
MASCARENE ISLANDS — Маскаренские о-ва
Англо-Русский географический словарь
MASCARENE — Mascarene, m\~ BrE AmE ˌmæsk ə ˈriːn ◂ ▷ Mascarene|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
ISLANDS — Изолированные
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
ISLANDS — Острова
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ISLANDS — Архипелаг
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ISLANDS — Chile
Russian-English Edic
ISLANDS — Изолированные
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MASCARENE GRASS — |maskə|rēn- noun Etymology: Mascarene islands, in the Indian ocean east of Madagascar : an Asiatic creeping perennial grass ( Zoysia …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MASCARENE GRASS — /mas'keuh reen"/ a creeping grass, Zoysia tenuifolia, naturalized in California and Florida, having fine leaves and shoots that make good …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
VIRGIN ISLANDS — group of about 90 small islands, islets, cays, and rocks in the West Indies, situated some 40 to 50 miles …
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TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS — British dependency in the West Indies, comprising two small groups of islands at the southeastern end of The Bahamas and …
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PACIFIC ISLANDS, HISTORY OF — history of the islands from prehistoric times to the end of colonial rule in the period after World War II. …
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PACIFIC ISLANDS — island geographic region of the Pacific Ocean. It comprises three ethnogeographic regionsMelanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesiabut conventionally excludes the neighbouring island …
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P'ENG-HU ISLANDS — P'eng-hu also spelled Penghu, Chinese (Wade-Giles) P'eng-hu Ch'n-tao, or P'eng-hu Lieh-taoconventional Pescadores archipelago and hsien (county) of Taiwan, consisting of …
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NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS — also called Northern Marianas, officially Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a self-governing commonwealth in political union with the United …
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GALAPAGOS ISLANDS — Spanish Islas Galpagos, officially Archipilago de Coln (Columbus Archipelago), island group of the eastern Pacific Ocean, administratively part of Ecuador. …
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FRISIAN ISLANDS — low-lying chain of islands from 3 to 20 miles (5 to 32 km) off the northern European mainland. They extend …
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CAYMAN ISLANDS — British colony in the Caribbean Sea, comprising the islands of Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and Cayman Brac, situated about 180 …
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ALEUTIAN ISLANDS — Aleutian Islands chain of small islands that separate the Bering Sea (north) from the main portion of the Pacific Ocean …
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RÉUNION — geographical name island W Indian Ocean in the W Mascarene Islands capital St.-Denis; an overseas department of France area 970 …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
RÉUNION — Island (pop., 2002 est.: 743,000) and French overseas department, Mascarene Islands, western Indian Ocean. Located 425 mi (684 km) east …
Английский словарь Британика
MAURITIUS — officially Republic of Mauritius Island country, lying east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The central independent island state of …
Английский словарь Британика
ISLAND — I Any area of land smaller than a continent and entirely surrounded by water. Islands may occur in oceans, seas, …
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KOREAN VELVET GRASS — noun see mascarene grass
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STINKWOOD — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun 1. : any of several trees with a wood of unpleasant odor: as a. : either of two …
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PYCNOCOMA — pikˈnäkəmə noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from pycn- + -coma : a small genus of shrubs or trees (family …
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PIPTURUS — pipˈt(y)u̇rəs noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from Greek piptein to fall down + New Latin -urus — more at …
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MONIMIA — məˈnimēə noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from Latin Monima (from Latin, from Greek Monimē ), the wife of Mithridates …
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MAUNALOA — ˈmau̇nəˈlōə noun ( -s ) Etymology: Hawaiian : a leguminous vine ( Canavalia microcarpa ) that is native to the …
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LEGUATIA — ˌlegyüˈāsh(ē)ə noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from François Leguat died 1735 French Huguenot traveler + New Latin -ia : …
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LATANIA — ləˈtānēə, -tan- noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from French latanier + New Latin -ia : a small genus of …
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KOREAN VELVET GRASS — noun Usage: usually capitalized K : mascarene grass
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FAHAM — ˈfäˌhäm noun ( -s ) Etymology: French, from a native name in the Mascarene islands 1. : the leaves of …
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BOTTLE PALM — noun : any of several palms (as Colpothrinax wrightii of Cuba and Hyophorbe amaricaulis of the Mascarene islands in the …
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SOLITAIRE — /sol"i tair'/ , n. 1. Also called patience . any of various games played by one person with one or …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
RÉUNION — geographical name island W Indian Ocean in the W Mascarene Islands capital St.-Denis; an overseas department of France area 970 …
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EQUATORIAL CURRENT — ocean current flowing westward near the equator, predominantly controlled by the winds. Characteristically, equatorial-current systems consist of two westward-flowing currents …
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ZOYSIA — genus of creeping grasses of the family Poaceae, containing four or five perennial species native to southeastern Asia and New …
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YEAR IN REVIEW 1996: LIFE-SCIENCES: ZOOLOGY — ZOOLOGY: Entomology. Most modern insects possess wings and can fly. The evolutionary development of wings and flight in insects, however, …
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SOMALI BASIN — submarine basin on the floor of the southwestern Arabian Sea, an arm of the Indian Ocean, east of Somalia. The …
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SEYCHELLES-MAURITIUS PLATEAU — also called Mascarene Plateau, submarine plateau, a very shallow, extensive ridge in the Indian Ocean forming a crescent through the …
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REUNION — officially Department of Runion, French Dpartement de la Runion island of the Mascarene Islands and a French overseas dpartement in …
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POLYNESIA — ethnogeographic grouping of islands scattered across a huge triangular area of the east-central Pacific Ocean. The triangle has its apex …
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OUTER HEBRIDES — islands in Scotland, off the northwestern coast of the Scottish mainland. They constitute the Western Isles council area. Lewis, the …
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OCEANIC ARTS
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NETHERLANDS ANTILLES — Dutch Nederlandse Antillen, five islands in the Caribbean Sea, an autonomous part of The Netherlands since 1954. The islands are …
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MICRONESIAN CULTURE — the beliefs and practices of the indigenous peoples of those Pacific Islands grouped as Micronesia. The islands include Kiribati (formerly …
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MICRONESIA — officially Federated States of Micronesia, country in the western Pacific Ocean. It is composed of more than 600 islands and …
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MELANESIAN CULTURE — the beliefs and practices of those indigenous peoples of the Pacific Islands grouped as Melanesia. The islands include (generally from …
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MAURITIUS — officially Republic Of Mauritius, island country, the central independent island state of the Mascarene group, lying about 500 miles (800 …
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MADAGASCAR, FLAG OF — national flag consisting of a horizontal red stripe over a green stripe, with a vertical white stripe at the hoist. …
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LAKSHADWEEP — formerly (195673) Laccadive, Minicoy, and Amindivi Islands, union territory of India. It is a group of some two dozen islands …
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FRENCH POLYNESIA — officially Territory of French Polynesia, French Territoire de la Polynsie Franaise collection of island groups and overseas territory of France …
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DODECANESE — Modern Greek Dhodheknisos, group of islands in the Aegean Sea, off the southwestern coast of Turkey, and constituting the noms …
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DECKEN, KARL KLAUS VON DER — born Aug. 8, 1833, Kotzen, Brandenburg died Oct. 2, 1865, near Bardera, Somalia German explorer in eastern Africa and the …
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CASUARINALES — the beefwood order of dicotyledonous flowering plants comprising the family Casuarinaceae, with two genera (Casuarina, 30 species; Gymnostoma, 20 species) …
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