malay archipelago in English

noun
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a very large group of islands, including Sumatra, Java, Borneo, the Philippines, and New Guinea, that lie between Southeast Asia and Australia. They constitute the bulk of the area formerly known as the East Indies.

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1. A large group or chain of islands: the Malay Archipelago

2. Gazetteer Indo- West Pacific: East Africa, Pakistan and India to the Malay Archipelago and the Philippines.

3. Its range covers an area from India’s Bay of Bengal through the Malay Archipelago to northern Australia.

4. Borneo is situated southeast of the Malay Peninsula in the Greater Sunda Islands group of the Malay Archipelago

5. Algal-Algal definition is - agar; especially : agar produced in the Malay archipelago from red algae of the genus Eucheuma.

6. The spread of Islam in the Philippines began in the 14th century, mostly by Muslim merchants from the western part of the Malay Archipelago.

7. Banteng definition, a wild ox, Bos Banteng (javanicus), of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, resembling the domestic cow: now greatly reduced in number

8. In addition, mass risings of related polychaete worms are reported in other parts of the world, including the Malay Archipelago, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, and Japan.

9. They were used in the Malay Archipelago for the loading and unloading of goods, or for the transportation of cargoes, supplies and goods from ship to shore and vice versa.1 In Singapore, Bumboats are also called twakow or tongkang.

10. Chevrotain definition is - any of several very small hornless deerlike ruminant mammals of tropical Asia, the Malay archipelago, and West Africa superficially resembling the musk deer, the male having short tusks, and being among the smallest known ruminants, standing only about a …

11. In mind; (4) Amphinesian-maritime peoples occupying the islands of the Pacific, Malay Archipelago, and part of Madagascar; (5) Native peoples of America, extending from Cape Horn to Labrador; (6) the Eskimo; (7) the Mongolian stock-stretching from Tibet to Japan and from Tonquin to Lapland-an enormous assemblage; (8) the Negro; (9) the Bushman.