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Micronesia   /mˌaɪkroʊnˈiʒə/   Listen
Micronesia

noun
1.
A country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986.  Synonyms: Federated States of Micronesia, TT.
2.
The islands in the northwestern part of Oceania.



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... forests of tree-ferns, myrtles, and ebony, with endless varieties of beautiful flowering plants; their fauna is wonderfully poor, varieties of rats and bats, a few snakes, frogs, spiders, and centipedes, with the crocodile, being the chief indigenous animals; the three divisions of Polynesia are Micronesia, comprising five small archipelagoes in the NW., N. of the equator, of which the chief are the Mariana and Caroline groups; Melanesia, comprising eleven archipelagoes in the W., S. of the equator, of which the largest are the Solomon, Bismarck, Fiji, New Caledonia, and New Hebrides groups; ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood


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