Spice Islands

Definition: Spice Islands

Spice Islands

Noun

1. 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.

Specialty Definition: Spice Islands

Domain	Definition
Slang in 1811	SPICE ISLANDS. A privy. Stink-hole bay or dilberry creek. The fundament. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Specialty Definition: Spice Islands

Although the term Spice Islands is most commonly used to refer to the Maluku Islands (formerly the Moluccas), which lie on the equator, between the Celebes and the New Guinea islands (see: map of southeast Asia), it has also been used in reference to other islands known for their spice production, notably the Tanzanian group consisting of Zanzibar, Mafia Island and Pemba.

Commercial Usage: Spice Islands

Domain	Title
Books	Taste of Indonesia: Recipes from the Spice Islands (reference) The Essential Indonesian Cookbook: Aromatic Dishes from Tropical Spice Islands (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Spice Islands

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Micronesia	European explorers--first the Portuguese in search of the Spice Islands (Indonesia) and then the Spanish--reached the Carolines in the 16th century, with the Spanish establishing sovereignty. (references)
	United Kingdom	In search of an alternate route to the Spice Islands, John Cabot reached the North American continent in 1498. Sir Walter Raleigh organized the first, short-lived colony in Virginia in 1584, and permanent English settlement began in 1607 at Jamestown, Virginia. (references)
	Tanzania	Tanzania enjoys an abundance of natural wealth; arable land; excellent tourist attractions (Ngorongoro Crater, the Serengeti, Kilimanjaro and the spice Islands of Zanzibar); a sizeable domestic market and sub-regional market; a wide local raw material supply base; inexpensive labor; political stability and a suitable market policy orientation. (references)
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Modern Translation: Spice Islands

Language		Translations for "Spice Islands"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Russian		молуккские остров. (various references)
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Anagrams: Spice Islands

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	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-l-n-p-s-s-s"
	-2 letters: placidness.
	-3 letters: cisalpine, dailiness, disciples, displaces, inclasped, pliancies, salicines, sandpiles, scaliness, sciaenids, sideslips, sidespins, slipcased, slipcases, spiciness.
	-4 letters: acidness, alcidine, capelins, discases, disciple, displace, eclipsis, enclasps, episcias, inclasps, inscapes, laciness, laicised, laicises, painless, panicled, panicles, pelicans, penicils, piscinae, piscinal, piscinas, salicine, salicins, sandpile, sanicles, sciaenid, scissile, sideslip, sidespin, silesias, slipcase, snapless, spadices, spancels.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-l-n-p-s-s-s"
	+5 letters: prejudicialnesses.
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Spice Islands

Definition: Spice Islands

Spice Islands

Noun

Specialty Definition: Spice Islands

Slang in 1811

Specialty Definition: Spice Islands

Synonym: Spice Islands

Crosswords: Spice Islands

Commercial Usage: Spice Islands

Books

Non-Fiction Usage: Spice Islands

Economic History

Micronesia

United Kingdom

Tanzania

Modern Translation: Spice Islands

Russian

Anagrams: Spice Islands

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