MOLUCCAS as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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
   Synonym(s)
   • Spice Islands (what does Spice Islands mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Moluccas is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • island (what does island mean?)