PAPUA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Papua mean? 

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

1. the southeastern part of Papua New Guinea

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAPUA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The southeastern part of Papua New Guinea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("Papua" is a kind of...):

part; region (the extended spatial location of something)

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

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)

Derivation:

Papuan (of or relating to Papua or its people or language)

 Context examples 

He has been upon several scientific expeditions in his youth (he was with Robertson in Papua), and the life of the camp and the canoe is nothing fresh to him.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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)

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)

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)

"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)

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)