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111Australian Aborigine — aborigine (def. 2). * * * ▪ people Introduction any of the indigenous people of Australia. Australia is the only continent where the entire indigenous population maintained a single kind of adaptation hunting and gathering (hunting and… …
112Beach-la-Mar — /beech leuh mahr /, n. Neo Melanesian. [alter. of BÊCHE DE MER a well known trade item in the region where this type of pidgin is spoken] * * * …
113echinoderm — /i kuy neuh derrm , ek euh neuh /, n. any marine animal of the invertebrate phylum Echinodermata, having a radiating arrangement of parts and a body wall stiffened by calcareous pieces that may protrude as spines and including the starfishes, sea …
114Neo-Melanesian — /nee oh mel euh nee zheuhn, sheuhn/, n. a pidgin language based on English and spoken in Melanesia, New Guinea, and NE Australia. Also called Beach la mar, bêche de mer. [1960 65] * * * …
115sea cucumber — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, having a long, leathery body with tentacles around the anterior end. [1595 1605] * * * Any of 1,100 species of echinoderms constituting the class Holothurioidea, found in all oceans, mostly in shallow… …
116shellfish — /shel fish /, n., pl. (esp. collectively) shellfish, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) shellfishes. an aquatic animal having a shell, as the oyster and other mollusks and the lobster and other crustaceans. [bef. 900; ME; OE… …
117Sulu Archipelago — an island group in the SW Philippines, separating the Sulawesi Sea from the Sulu Sea. 555,239; 1086 sq. mi. (2813 sq. km). Cap.: Jolo. * * * Volcanic and coral archipelago, southwestern Philippines, between Mindanao and Borneo. A double island… …
118Sulu Sea — a sea in the W Pacific, between the SW Philippines and Borneo. * * * ▪ sea, Pacific Ocean portion of the western North Pacific. It is bounded by northeastern Borneo on the southwest, the southwestern islands of the Philippines, including… …
119Thursday Island — an island in Torres Strait between NE Australia and New Guinea; part of Queensland: pearl fishing. 2283; 11/2 sq. mi. (4 sq. km). * * * ▪ island, Queensland, Australia island in the Torres Strait off northern Queensland, Australia. It is… …
120Milne Bay — Inlet of the South Pacific Ocean, Papua New Guinea. Located at the southeastern end of the island of New Guinea, the bay is 30 mi (50 km) long and 6–8 mi (10–13 km) wide. A Spanish explorer charted the bay in 1606; it was named by the British for …
