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ARNO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Arno mean?
• ARNO (noun)
The noun ARNO has 1 sense:
1. a river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea
Familiarity information: ARNO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
Arno; Arno River; River Arno
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Arno" is a part of...):
Italia; Italian Republic; Italy (a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD)
Context examples
Palm oil is an important commodity, but it raises concerns over the destruction of tropical rainforests that are replaced by its monocultures, says Kevin Felix Arno Darras, study author and postdoctoral researcher at Germany's University of Göttingen.
(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)
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