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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 coralplay

  Familiarity information: FIJIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FIJIS (noun)


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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