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Wallacea

Wallacea proper noun: a group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep water straits from the Asian and Australian continental shelves.

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Proper noun

Wallacea

  1. A group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep water straits from the Asian and Australian continental shelves.
    • The Indonesian islands of Taliabu, Peleng and Batudaka are in a region named Wallacea, after Alfred Russel Wallace, the 19th-century naturalist who developed a theory of evolution alongside Charles Darwin’s.2020 January 9, Karen Weintraub, “Trove of New Bird Species Found on Remote Indonesian Islands”, in The New York Times

Origin of Wallacea

From Wallace + -ia. Named after Alfred Russel Wallace; see Wallace Line.

Words formed from Wallacea

Questions about Wallacea

What does Wallacea mean?
Wallacea means a group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep water straits from the Asian and Australian continental shelves.
What part of speech is Wallacea?
Wallacea is a proper noun.

Words near Wallacea in the dictionary

  1. Wallace's Line
  2. Wallace's standard-wing
  3. Wallace's standard-wings
  4. Wallace-Bolyai-Gerwien theorem
  5. Wallace-Woodworth
  6. Wallacea
  7. Wallacean
  8. Wallacedale
  9. Wallaceism
  10. Wallaces
  11. Wallacetown

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