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nesonyms

nesonyms is the plural of nesonym.

Meaning of nesonym

Noun

nesonym (plural nesonyms)

  1. A toponym of an island.
    • The earliest known nesonym south of Australia is Van Diemen's Land, which Abel Tasman (1603—1659) immortalized on discovery in 1642 to honour the then Governor General of the Dutch East Indies; in 1856, however, the island was renamed Tasmania ostensibly to honour Tasman himself but actually to...2013, Steven Roger Fischer, Islands: From Atlantis to Zanzibar, page 284

Questions about nesonyms

What is nesonyms the plural of?
Nesonyms is the plural of nesonym.

Words near nesonyms in the dictionary

  1. nesomyid
  2. nesomyids
  3. nesomyine
  4. nesomyines
  5. nesonym
  6. nesonyms
  7. nesophontid
  8. nesophontids
  9. nesosilicate
  10. nesosilicates
  11. nesosteine

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