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LEMNOS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lemnos mean? 

LEMNOS (noun)
  The noun LEMNOS has 1 sense:

1. a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea; famous for a reddish-brown clay that has medicinal propertiesplay

  Familiarity information: LEMNOS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LEMNOS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea; famous for a reddish-brown clay that has medicinal properties

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Lemnos; Limnos

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Holonyms ("Lemnos" is a part of...):

Ellas; Greece; Hellenic Republic (a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil)

Aegean; Aegean Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia)


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