English noun: Spice Islands | |||
1. | Spice Islands (location) a group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea; settled by the Portuguese but taken by the Dutch who made them the center for a spice monopoly, at which time they were known as Spice Islands | ||
Synonyms | Moluccas | ||
Instance hypernym | island | ||
Part meronym | Dutch East Indies, Indonesia, Republic of Indonesia | ||