Crossword-Solution: MELANESIA
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MELANESIA | anagram | MAINESALE |
We have 10 clues for the answer “MELANESIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| AUSTRALIA, island group north of | 1 answer |
| Chain of islands including the Solomons. | 1 answer |
| Division of Oceania. | 1 answer |
| Fijis, Solomons, etc. | 1 answer |
| ISLAND group north of Australia | 1 answer |
| Oceania island group | 1 answer |
| Regional locale of "Rain.” | 1 answer |
| Part of Oceania | 2 answers |
| ISLAND group off Australia | 3 answers |
| OCEANIC country | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MELANESIA (5)
His rounds took him into low-roofed cottages in which were fishing tackle and sails and here and there mementoes of deep-sea travelling, a lacquer box from Japan, spears and oars from Melanesia, or daggers from the bazaars of Stamboul; there was an air of romance in the stuffy little rooms, and the salt of the sea gave them a bitter freshness.
Codrington speaks of Melanesia; from what I have learned his words are equally true of the Polynesian.
Ethnographically it belongs to Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia, because all the breeds of the South Pacific have gravitated to it by canoe-drift and intricately, degeneratively, and amazingly interbred.
All he knew of the world was steamers, far-outlying south-sea isles, and his own island of King William in Melanesia.
You fella bring me fella small fella clam—kai-kai he stop.” Kai-kai is the Polynesian for food, meat, eating, and to eat: but it would be hard to say whether it was introduced into Melanesia by the sandalwood traders or by the Polynesian westward drift.
Quotes with MELANESIA (1)
Vast tracts of ocean, whether Polynesia, Micronesia or Melanesia, contain island populations that remain outside the modern world. They know about it, they may have traveled to it, they appreciate artifacts and medical help from it, but they live their daily lives much as hundreds of generations of ancestors before them, without money, electricity, phones, TV or manufactured food.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1943–2000).