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Macronesia

Macronesia proper noun: the island of Australia and nearby islands, variously including New Guinea and New Zealand.

Proper noun

Macronesia

  1. (rare) The island of Australia and nearby islands, variously including New Guinea and New Zealand.
  2. A fictional country used for examples.

Origin of Macronesia

From macro- + Ancient Greek νῆσος (nêsos) + -ia.

Words formed from Macronesia

Questions about Macronesia

What does Macronesia mean?
Macronesia means the island of Australia and nearby islands, variously including New Guinea and New Zealand.
What part of speech is Macronesia?
Macronesia is a proper noun.

Words near Macronesia in the dictionary

  1. macronationality
  2. macronationally
  3. macronations
  4. macroned
  5. macronematous
  6. Macronesia
  7. Macronesian
  8. macroneurological
  9. Macronian
  10. macroniche
  11. macroniches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Macronesia (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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