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Jezo

Jezo is the obsolete form of Ezo.

Meaning of Ezo

Proper noun

Ezo

  1. A former name for the Ainu.
  2. A former name for Hokkaido and neighboring islands.
    • A fascination with Hokkaido's wild country first drew the veterinarian to Abashiri, and he is a leading expert on the Ezo red fox. Like much of Hokkaido's wildlife, this fox is not found on Honshu.1980, National Geographic Society (U.S.), National geographic, →OCLC

Words formed from Jezo

Phrases with Jezo

Questions about Jezo

What is Jezo the obsolete form of?
Jezo is the obsolete form of Ezo.

Words near Jezo in the dictionary

  1. Jezierskis
  2. Jezika
  3. Jeziorski
  4. Jeziorskis
  5. Jezkazgan
  6. Jezo
  7. Jezo spruce
  8. Jezo spruces
  9. Jezreel
  10. Jezreelite
  11. Jezreelites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Jezo (page history and authors); Ezo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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