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A peninsula is an area of land that sticks out into a body of water. It is like an island, but it is attached to a bigger piece of land.
If you look at a map of the United States, you can see that most of the state of Florida is a large peninsula.
- similar words:
- cape
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point |
| derivations: |
peninsular (adj.), peninsularity (n.) |
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