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spiceland en · NOUN

Etymology

From spice + -land.

Meanings

1. A region where spices are grown.
   • He promised handsome rewards to prospectors who uncovered long-anticipated mineral deposits and to those who would help make the Amazon a spiceland to replace the sources of cloves, ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg that Portugal had lost in the East. 1996, Dauril Alden, The Making of an Enterprise, page 121:
   • The sunlands of the West and the spicelands of the East, the smiling Arcadias and blissful Islands of the Blest—ha! ha! 1900 April 7, Jack London, “(please specify the page number(s))”, in The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:

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