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Tanegashima

Tanegashima proper noun: an island belonging to the Ōsumi Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

Proper noun

Tanegashima

  1. An island belonging to the Ōsumi Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
    • The skulls belonged to individuals from the Hirota people, who lived on the southern Japanese island of Tanegashima from the third century to the seventh century.2023 August 18, Mindy Weisberger, “Long-standing mystery of modified human skulls in ancient Japan solved by new analysis”, in CNN

Origin of Tanegashima

Borrowed from Japanese 種子島.

Questions about Tanegashima

What does Tanegashima mean?
Tanegashima means an island belonging to the Ōsumi Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
What part of speech is Tanegashima?
Tanegashima is a proper noun.

Words near Tanegashima in the dictionary

  1. tane
  2. tane someone down the garden path
  3. tane to drink
  4. Taneatua
  5. Taneg
  6. Tanegashima
  7. taneid
  8. taneids
  9. Taneja
  10. Tanejas
  11. tanekaha

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