Similar words: felucca, yucca, buccal, buccaneer, buccaneering, ormolu, lucas, occasion. Meaning: n. a group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea; settled by the Portuguese but taken by the Dutch who made them the center for a spice monopoly, at which time they were known as Spice Islands.
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1. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the Moluccas and tens of thousands are sheltering in camps in the region.
2. Speelman next sailed to the Moluccas.
3. An island of eastern Indonesia in the northern Moluccas west of northeast Celebes. Settled by the Portuguese (1521-1574), it was subjugated by the Dutch in 1683.
4. An island of eastern Indonesia in the Moluccas west of New Guinea. It borders on the Ceram Sea, a section of the western Pacific Ocean.
5. Gazetteer Western Pacific: Moluccas and Philippines to Timor, north to the Mariana Islands, south to Rowley Shoals and New Caledonia; throughout Micronesia. Range extends to Pitcairn (Ref. 9710).
6. Individuals who are native to the islands of Moluccas would actually cultivate a specific clove tree for each and every single child that was born in their tribe.
7. The ferry was packed with refugees fleeing sectarian violence in the Moluccas.
8. All the outer states capitulated to the Republic except for the most easterly islands which proclaimed a Republic of the South Moluccas.
9. It was at this time that Europeans first came to the Moluccas in search of cloves and nutmeg.
10. The Dutch there were left completely masters of the Moluccas.
11. Nutmeg: Spice made from the seed of a tropical tree (Myristica fragrans), native to the Moluccas of Indonesia.
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12. The transmigration program has exported Muslims to Bali, Borneo, the Celebes, the Moluccas, and Papua, making Indonesia the most populous Muslim-majority nation in the world.
13. An island of eastern Indonesia between New Guinea and Sulawesi. Irregular in shape, it is the largest of the Moluccas.
14. Spice consisting of the seed of a tropical evergreen tree (Myristica fragrans), native to the Moluccas in Indonesia.
15. An island group of eastern Indonesia, part of the Moluccas in the Arafura Sea southwest of New Guinea. The islands were discovered by the Dutch and colonized by them after '23.
16. Irregular in shape, it is the largest of the Moluccas.
17. Nutmeg: Spice made from the seed of a tropical fragrans, native to the Moluccas of Indonesia.
18. Origin: The carambola is believed to have originated in Sri Lanka and the Moluccas, but it has been cultivated in southeast Asia and Malaysia for many centuries.
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