AUSTRALASIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Australasia mean? 

• AUSTRALASIA (noun)
  The noun AUSTRALASIA has 1 sense:

1. Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South Pacific

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUSTRALASIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South Pacific

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

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

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)

Derivation:

Australasian (relating to or found in Australasia)

 Context examples 

For the current study, the researchers looked at ten bird groups currently limited to the tropics, predominantly in areas that were once part of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana (Africa, South America and Australasia).

(Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics, University of Cambridge)