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noun |
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a piece of land surrounded on nearly all sides by water. It is connected to a larger body of land by a usually narrow strip of land.
Florida is a peninsula with the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Gulf of Mexico on the other.
- similar words:
- cape
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| related words: |
point |
| derivations: |
peninsular (adj.), peninsularity (n.) |
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