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FIJIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Fijis mean?
• FIJIS (noun)
The noun FIJIS has 1 sense:
1. a group of more than 800 islands (100 inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific; larger islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are of volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs; smaller islands are coral
Familiarity information: FIJIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of more than 800 islands (100 inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific; larger islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are of volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs; smaller islands are coral
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Fiji Islands; Fijis
Instance hypernyms:
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Meronyms (parts of "Fijis"):
Viti Levu; Vanua Levu (a volcanic island in the Fijis)
Fiji; Republic of Fiji (an independent state within the British Commonwealth located on the Fiji Islands)
Holonyms ("Fijis" is a part of...):
Melanesia (the islands in the southwestern part of Oceania)
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