Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The islands of the Pacific Ocean, including Indonesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the area comprising the islands of central and S Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun The
Pacific islands ofIndonesia ,Melanesia ,Micronesia , andPolynesia considered as a group.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia)
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Austronesia -- are scattered over forty-six degrees of longitude, on both sides of the equator.
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Taiwan's indigenous peoples, who originated in Austronesia and southern Asia, have lived on Taiwan for 12,000 to 15,000 years.
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Taiwan's indigenous peoples, who originated in Austronesia and southern Asia, have lived on Taiwan for 12,000 to 15,000 years.
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His team took bacterial samples of 212 people from all over Austronesia and found a strain of
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Saucy study reveals a gene that affects aggression after provocation Three groups of fish are actually the males, females and larvae of one family Austronesia covers half the globe.
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Taiwan's indigenous peoples, who originated in Austronesia and southern Asia, have lived on Taiwan for 12,000 to 15,000 years.
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Taiwan's indigenous peoples, who originated in Austronesia and southern Asia, have lived on Taiwan for 12,000 to 15,000 years.
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Austronesia: Reclaiming The Civilization of the Voyaging Canoe
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