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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A long narrow island of the southwest Philippines north of Borneo. It lies between the Sulu Sea and the Palawan Passage of the South China Sea.

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  • proper noun An island of the Philippines, in the Visayas island group

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