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NULLARBOR PLAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nullarbor Plain mean? 

NULLARBOR PLAIN (noun)
  The noun NULLARBOR PLAIN has 1 sense:

1. a vast arid plain of southern Australia stretching inland from the Great Australian Bight; has sparse vegetation and no surface water and is almost uninhabited; the site of a major rocket research centerplay

  Familiarity information: NULLARBOR PLAIN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NULLARBOR PLAIN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A vast arid plain of southern Australia stretching inland from the Great Australian Bight; has sparse vegetation and no surface water and is almost uninhabited; the site of a major rocket research center

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

champaign; field; plain (extensive tract of level open land)

Holonyms ("Nullarbor Plain" is a part of...):

Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)


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