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islands

noun as in land surrounded by body of water

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The Philippines is made up of around 7,500 islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Without giving the islands a chance to recover, Super Typhoon Man-yi showed up just two days later.

Different species of seabirds can coexist on small, isolated islands despite eating the same kind of fish.

Their findings reveal that establishing islands of trees within large oil palm monocultures can promote the recovery of native tree diversity through natural regeneration.

The international research team established 52 tree islands of varying sizes and diversity of planted trees in a conventional industrial oil palm plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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