Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An irregularly shaped island of central Indonesia on the equator east of Borneo. Noted for its many endemic animal species, it is inhabited by various Austronesian peoples and was colonized by the Portuguese (1500s) and Dutch (1600s) before joining the Republic of Indonesia in 1950.
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- proper noun The world's eleventh-largest island, a part of
Indonesia ; formerly known asCelebes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mountainous island in eastern Indonesia
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Examples
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The pollination that forests in Sulawesi, Indonesia, provide are worth nearly $26 per acre, according to a 2007 study, but ongoing forest conversion in the region is expected to cut pollination - and by extension, coffee yields in Sulawesi - by up to 18 percent over the next 20 years.
U.N. report stresses the value of nature to world's economies Juliet Eilperin 2010
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The pollination that forests in Sulawesi, Indonesia, provide are worth nearly $26 per acre, according to a 2007 study, but ongoing forest conversion in the region is expected to cut pollination - and by extension, coffee yields in Sulawesi - by up to 18 percent over the next 20 years.
U.N. report stresses the value of nature to world's economies Juliet Eilperin 2010
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The pollination that forests in Sulawesi, Indonesia, provide are worth nearly $26 per acre, according to a 2007 study, but ongoing forest conversion in the region is expected to cut pollination - and by extension, coffee yields in Sulawesi - by up to 18 percent over the next 20 years.
U.N. report stresses the value of nature to world's economies Juliet Eilperin 2010
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Sulawesi people have always known of pigs other than babirusas, as Sulawesi is also home to the Sulawesi warty pig Sus celebensis*.
The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas Darren Naish 2006
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Sulawesi people have always known of pigs other than babirusas, as Sulawesi is also home to the Sulawesi warty pig Sus celebensis*.
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Mammals in Sulawesi: where did they come from and when, and what happened to them when they got there?
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Mammals in Sulawesi: where did they come from and when, and what happened to them when they got there?
The many babirusa species: laissez-faire lumping under fire again Darren Naish 2006
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"It's not good that while our big cities are connected to the world outside, they are not connected to other islands in the East, such as Sulawesi, Kalimantan, Nusa Tenggara, and Papua," Yudhoyono said.
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A national police spokesman said suspect Heru Kuncoro was captured last week, as part of raids in central Java, Borneo and Sulawesi linked to a plot to kill police with cyanide.
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The spokesman said the group previously killed two policemen who were guarding a bank in Sulawesi.
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