Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun moluccas

1 sense of moluccas

Sense 1
Moluccas, Spice Islands -- (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)
       INSTANCE OF=> island -- (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)