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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. islands west of Sicily (now known as the Egadi Islands) where the Romans won a naval victory over the Carthaginians that ended the first Punic War in 241 BC;
[syn: Aegates Isles, Aegadean Isles]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Aegates Isles
    n 1: islands west of Sicily (now known as the Egadi Islands)
         where the Romans won a naval victory over the Carthaginians
         that ended the first Punic War in 241 BC [syn: Aegates
         Isles, Aegadean Isles]