QUEENSLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Queensland mean? 

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

1. a state in northeastern Australia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUEENSLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in northeastern Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Australian state (one of the several states constituting Australia)

Meronyms (parts of "Queensland"):

Brisbane (capital and largest city of Queensland state; located in the southeastern corner of Queensland on the Pacific; settled by British as a penal colony; 3rd largest city in Australia)

Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea)

Moreton Bay (an arm of the Tasman Sea forming a bay to the east of Brisbane)

Mount Bartle Frere (the highest mountain peak in Queensland, Australia)

Holonyms ("Queensland" 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)

 Context examples 

Seven of the 10 participants in the Queensland trial have reported positive changes, including Louise Remmerswaal, a mother from Queensland.

(Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Developed in Australia Shows Promise, VOA)

A common ingredient in toothpaste and hand wash could be contributing to antibiotic resistance, according to University of Queensland research.

(Toothpaste and Hand Wash Are Causing Antibiotic Resistance, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A decade-long research, led by Distinguished Professor James Dale, involved extensive laboratory tests at Queensland University of Technology as well as field trials in north Queensland.

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

A University of Queensland study suggests eating eight or more portions of fruit and vegetables a day not only leads to better physical health but improves mental well-being.

(Fruit and veggies pave the road to happiness, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The cities of Cairns and Townsville, in Queensland, Australia, which started the trials in 2011, have shown a 96 per cent reduction in dengue incidence and no dengue outbreaks in the past five years.

(Bacteria-infected mosquitoes slash dengue cases, SciDev.Net)

Before 2013, scientists didn't know what the call sounded like, then a night parrot was found in the state of Queensland.

(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)

Co-leaders of the study are Patrick F. Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP, Yeargen Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Genetics and Director of the Center for Psychiatric Genomics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine; and Naomi Wray, PhD, Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Queensland in Australia.

(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The new therapy is developed by the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane and the University of Queensland.

(Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Developed in Australia Shows Promise, VOA)

What happens in MS, there is an immune reaction going on in your brain that is represented as if that your immune system is attacking the brain cells, said Rajiv Khanna, a professor at Queensland’s QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute.

(Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Developed in Australia Shows Promise, VOA)