NEW GUINEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New Guinea mean? 

• NEW GUINEA (noun)
  The noun NEW GUINEA has 1 sense:

1. a Pacific island to the north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; the western part is governed by Indonesia and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea

  Familiarity information: NEW GUINEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW GUINEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Pacific island to the north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; the western part is governed by Indonesia and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "New Guinea"):

Independent State of Papua New Guinea; Papua New Guinea (a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea; in 1975 it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations)

Meronyms (members of "New Guinea"):

Papuan (a native or inhabitant of Papua New Guinea or New Guinea)

Holonyms ("New Guinea" is a part of...):

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)

 Context examples 

A country in the Pacific, comprising a group of islands in the North Pacific Ocean, southeast of the Philippines and northwest of Papua New Guinea.

(Palau, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in southeastern Asia, comprising a group of islands and including the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, between the Coral Sea and the South Pacific Ocean, east of Indonesia.

(Papua New Guinea, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes the inhabitants of Papua New Guinea, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Papua New Guinean, NCI Thesaurus)

Autonomous recorders set up at 34 locations in the Adelbert Mountains of Papua New Guinea covered sites ranging from pristine forests to small cacao farms.

(Scientists record the sound of intact forest, SciDev.Net)

"What we've done is take a gene from a banana that originated in Papua New Guinea and is naturally very high in pro-vitamin A but has small bunches, and inserted it into a Cavendish banana," Professor Dale said.

(Golden Bananas High in Pro-Vitamin A Developed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Denotes a person from any of the islands in the western pacific encompassing the area from the Philippines in the west, Indonesia to the south west, Papua New Guinea and Melanesia to the south, and Polynesia to the south-east and east.

(Micronesian, NCI Thesaurus)

Countries and regions most impacted by changes in MJO behaviour are the Maritime Continent region, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, parts of Malaysia, northern Australia, West Pacific, Amazon basin and southwest Africa, where rainfall is increasing, the study says.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)

By analysing the composition of sounds in a forest — called a soundscape — scientists can make cost-effective and reliable assessment of the forest, according to a new study conducted in Papua New Guinea.

(Scientists record the sound of intact forest, SciDev.Net)