| 单词 | Spice Islands |
| 释义 | Spice Islands (once / 25639 pages) n WORD FAMILY Spice Islands USAGE EXAMPLESAs Nicolás Wey-Gómez has recently shown, sailing south to the tropics was perhaps Columbus’s main innovation, since he wanted to reach the Spice Islands first. Washington Post(Oct 08, 2015) The archipelago of Zanzibar in Tanzania, sometimes known as the Spice Islands, was once the world's largest producer of cloves. BBC(Dec 16, 2014) Cape Malay cuisine owes a lot to the “Spice Islands” of Southeast Asia and relies on a careful blend of intense fragrances, heavy with turmeric. New York Times(Oct 29, 2014) n 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 Syn|Exp Moluccas island a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water |
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