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peninsula
noun(pen-in-su-la)a portion of land nearly surrounded by water and connected with a larger body by an isthmus; also : a piece of land jutting out into the water whether with or without a well-defined isthmus
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geographical name(pen-in-su-la)peninsula of southwestern Alaska southwest of Cook Inlet
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geographical name(pen-in-su-la)peninsula about 700 miles (1126 kilometers) long in western Antarctica south of the southern end of South America
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geographical name(pen-in-su-la)peninsula west of Baffin Island in Nunavut, northern Canada
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geographical name(pen-in-su-la)narrow peninsula in eastern Florida enclosing the lagoon that is called Indian River
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geographical name(pen-in-su-la)peninsula in northern Queensland, Australia, having at its northern tip Cape York (on the Torres Strait)
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geographical name(pen-in-su-la)peninsula in northeastern Russia in Asia between the Bering and Chukchi seas
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geographical name(pen-in-su-la)peninsula in northwestern France projecting into the English Channel west of the mouth of the Seine
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geographical name(pen-in-su-la)peninsula in the eastern U.S. between Chesapeake and Delaware bays comprising Delaware and parts of Maryland and Virginia
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geographical name(pen-in-su-la)peninsula in eastern Wisconsin between Green Bay and Lake Michigan