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/ˈbɔɹniˌoʊ/
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NOUN
- 3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific to the north of Java; largely covered by dense jungle and rain forest; part of the Malay Archipelago
How To Use Borneo In A Sentence
- New DNA tests show that Borneo's top predator is one of a kind.
- But I'll certainly let you know before I go backpacking in Borneo. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
- The Borneons, from being so harassed by these pirates, call the easterly wind 'the pirate wind.' The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
- One of my top priorities was to pay another visit to Asia's only great ape, the orangutan, which is endemic to Borneo and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. NYT > Home Page
- I also found a book published five years before the state's independence, called Sabah Men At Work, in the North Borneo Social Studies series which indicated that the name Sabah was known to the public. Undefined
- A strangler fig (Ficus citrifolia) photographed in Kalimantan, Borneo. Biological diversity in Sundaland
- The trees yielding common camphor and borneol are from genera of the lauraceæ family; also sassafras camphor is from the same family. Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887
- It certainly seems to have misled people into thinking that - like the animal photographed on Borneo - Hose's civet is reddish. That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel!
- Mysterious and sophisticated, this mélange of all-natural spices and herbs and woods agarwood, borneol and shiso leaf among others is haunting. Top 25 Contemporary Perfumes
- She tells us that the principal constituents of lavender are alcohols such as borneol, geraniol and linalool; esters such as geranyle and linalyl; and terpents such as pinene and limonene.
