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Mauritius   Listen
proper noun
Mauritius  n.  
1.
A country on the island of Mauritius.
2.
An island in the Indian Ocean.
Synonyms: Ile de France.





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"Mauritius" Quotes from Famous Books



... Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Man, Isle of Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia, Federated States of Midway Islands Monaco Mongolia ...
— The 1990 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... outstanding figure in the history of the glands of internal secretion, deserves some notice as a personality. In the words of the note-makers for novels and plays, he was a card. He was born in 1817 at Port-Louis, on the island of Mauritius, off Africa, then French property. His father was a Mr. Brown, an American sea captain; his mother a Mme. Sequard, a Frenchwoman. Early in childhood, the father sailed away on one of his voyages and never came back. The mother thereafter supported herself and her son sewing embroideries. ...
— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.


Words linked to "Mauritius" :   land, country, Republic of Mauritius, island, Port Louis, Mauritian, Indian Ocean


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