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]