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Yesso

Yesso is the obsolete spelling of Ezo.

Meaning of Ezo

Proper noun

Ezo

  1. A former name for the Ainu.
  2. A former name for Hokkaido and neighboring islands.
    • A fascination with Hokkaido's wild country first drew the veterinarian to Abashiri, and he is a leading expert on the Ezo red fox. Like much of Hokkaido's wildlife, this fox is not found on Honshu.1980, National Geographic Society (U.S.), National geographic, →OCLC

Words formed from Yesso

Phrases with Yesso

Questions about Yesso

What is Yesso the obsolete spelling of?
Yesso is the obsolete spelling of Ezo.

Words near Yesso in the dictionary

  1. yessing to death
  2. yessir
  3. yessiree
  4. yessiree Bob
  5. yessirree
  6. Yesso
  7. Yesso scallop
  8. Yesso scallops
  9. yessotoxin
  10. yessotoxins
  11. yesss

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yesso (page history and authors); Ezo (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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