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Pelagian Islands

Pelagian Islands proper noun: a group of three islands (Lampedusa, Lampione, and Linosa) belonging to Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia, south of Sicily.

Proper noun

the Pelagian Islands

  1. A group of three islands (Lampedusa, Lampione, and Linosa) belonging to Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia, south of Sicily.
    • This cannot be said of Linosa, an island with four volcanic peaks to the west of Malta, and still less of the Pelagian Islands.1876, Élisée Reclus, The Universal Geography, volume 1, London, page 335

Synonyms of Pelagian Islands

Origin of Pelagian Islands

Calque of Latin Īnsulae Pelagiae.

Questions about Pelagian Islands

What does Pelagian Islands mean?
Pelagian Islands means a group of three islands (Lampedusa, Lampione, and Linosa) belonging to Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia, south of Sicily.
What part of speech is Pelagian Islands?
Pelagian Islands is a proper noun.

Words near Pelagian Islands in the dictionary

  1. pelage
  2. pelages
  3. Pelagia
  4. pelagial
  5. pelagian
  6. Pelagian Islands
  7. Pelagianism
  8. Pelagianist
  9. Pelagianistic
  10. Pelagianists
  11. Pelagianize

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