HOKKAIDO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hokkaido mean? 

• HOKKAIDO (noun)
  The noun HOKKAIDO has 1 sense:

1. the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshu

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOKKAIDO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshu

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Ezo; Hokkaido; Yezo

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Meronyms (parts of "Hokkaido"):

Asahikawa (a city on western Hokkaido that is the center of a fertile agricultural area)

Sapporo (a commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido)

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

Japan; Japanese Archipelago; Japanese Islands (a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean)

 Context examples 

In this study, Dr. Kilduff worked with Dr. Yamanaka’s lab and Akira Terao’s, D.V.M., Ph.D., lab at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, to look at neighboring cells that produce melanin concentrating hormone (MCH), a molecule known to be involved in the control of both sleep and appetite.

(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)