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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea; settled by the Portuguese but taken by the Dutch who made them the center for a spice monopoly, at which time they were known as Spice Islands;
[syn: Moluccas, Spice Islands]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Moluccas
    n 1: a group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and
         New Guinea; settled by the Portuguese but taken by the
         Dutch who made them the center for a spice monopoly, at
         which time they were known as Spice Islands [syn:
         Moluccas, Spice Islands]