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Mindanao   /mˌɪndənˈaʊ/  /mˌɪndənˈeɪoʊ/   Listen
Mindanao

noun
1.
The second largest island of the Philippines at the southern end of the archipelago; mountainous and volcanic.





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"Mindanao" Quotes from Famous Books



... men. It was Pedro who had been the first cause of Wang's suspicion and fear. The Chinaman had seen wild men. He had penetrated, in the train of a Chinese pedlar, up one or two of the Bornean rivers into the country of the Dyaks. He had also been in the interior of Mindanao, where there are people who live in trees—savages, no better than animals; but a hairy brute like Pedro, with his great fangs and ferocious growls, was altogether beyond his conception of anything that could be looked upon as human. The strong impression made on him by Pedro was the prime inducement ...
— Victory • Joseph Conrad


Words linked to "Mindanao" :   Moro, Philippines, island, Philippine Islands


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