PAPUA NEW GUINEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Papua New Guinea mean? 

• PAPUA NEW GUINEA (noun)
  The noun PAPUA NEW GUINEA has 1 sense:

1. a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea; in 1975 it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations

  Familiarity information: PAPUA NEW GUINEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAPUA NEW GUINEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea; in 1975 it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Independent State of Papua New Guinea; Papua New Guinea

Instance hypernyms:

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Papua New Guinea"):

Bismarck Archipelago (a group of islands in the southwestern Pacific to the northeast of New Guinea; part of Papua New Guinea)

Bougainville (the largest of the Solomon Islands; a province of Papua New Guinea)

Papua (the southeastern part of Papua New Guinea)

capital of Papua New Guinea; Port Moresby (the administrative capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea)

Holonyms ("Papua New Guinea" is a part of...):

New Guinea (a Pacific island to the north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; the western part is governed by Indonesia and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea)

Holonyms ("Papua New Guinea" is a member of...):

British Commonwealth; Commonwealth of Nations (an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown)

 Context examples 

Autonomous recorders set up at 34 locations in the Adelbert Mountains of Papua New Guinea covered sites ranging from pristine forests to small cacao farms.

(Scientists record the sound of intact forest, SciDev.Net)

A country in the Pacific, comprising a group of islands in the North Pacific Ocean, southeast of the Philippines and northwest of Papua New Guinea.

(Palau, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes the inhabitants of Papua New Guinea, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Papua New Guinean, NCI Thesaurus)

"What we've done is take a gene from a banana that originated in Papua New Guinea and is naturally very high in pro-vitamin A but has small bunches, and inserted it into a Cavendish banana," Professor Dale said.

(Golden Bananas High in Pro-Vitamin A Developed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Denotes a person from any of the islands in the western pacific encompassing the area from the Philippines in the west, Indonesia to the south west, Papua New Guinea and Melanesia to the south, and Polynesia to the south-east and east.

(Micronesian, NCI Thesaurus)

Countries and regions most impacted by changes in MJO behaviour are the Maritime Continent region, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, parts of Malaysia, northern Australia, West Pacific, Amazon basin and southwest Africa, where rainfall is increasing, the study says.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)

By analysing the composition of sounds in a forest — called a soundscape — scientists can make cost-effective and reliable assessment of the forest, according to a new study conducted in Papua New Guinea.

(Scientists record the sound of intact forest, SciDev.Net)