Meaning ofpeninsula in English
peninsula
noun[C ]
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peninsula | American Dictionary
the Monterey Peninsula
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The hilly landscape resulted in habitat fragmentation by the creation of numerous islands and peninsulas of various shapes, sizes and degrees of isolation.
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There is a twelve-fold difference in precipitation across thepeninsula.
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For the rest of the 17th century, and into the 18th, thepeninsula was held under suspicion as a nest of unrest.
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The majority of these couples did not, however, come from thispeninsula.
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The askant tip of thepeninsula is middlemost.
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This thrust sheet is only preserved in the easternpeninsula.
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In this case, not only does the character of the historical framework change, but also our understanding of the story of change within thepeninsula.
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Conversely, was plunder the only motivator for the urban "nobility" of the oases towns and tribes of thepeninsula?
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Thepeninsula becomes the focal point of interest in the mapped landscape.
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The nine groups on thispeninsula, a geologically demarcated entity, all appear to represent houses of middle-class inhabitants of the site.
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The bedrock of thepeninsula is fairly well described.
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Indeed, it can be seen as a precursor to a wider regional cooperation scheme in thepeninsula.
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Thepeninsula contains different types of tropical vegetation such as tropical deciduous forest, thorn scrub, mangroves, grassland, marshlands and dunes.
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A nearby mainland site, located on apeninsula constituted a third control site.
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For example, one fragment from thepeninsula is a small trough suited for more modest grinding tasks.
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