AEGINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aegina mean? 

• AEGINA (noun)
  The noun AEGINA has 2 senses:

1. an island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf

2. small medusa

  Familiarity information: AEGINA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AEGINA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Aegina; Aigina

Instance hypernyms:

Aegean island (an island in the Aegean Sea)

Holonyms ("Aegina" is a part of...):

Ellas; Greece; Hellenic Republic (a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small medusa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Aegina" is a kind of...):

jellyfish (any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans)