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sakurajima

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.49 in modern English

Syllables
saku-ra-ji-ma
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A volcano in Kagoshima Bay, Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan, one of the IAVCEI's 17 Decade Volcanoes.

name

A former island and peninsula in Kagoshima Bay, Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. The volcano's surrounding area, an island prior to the 1914 explosion and now a peninsula.

name

A neighbourhood and former town in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Bay, Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan.

name

An asteroid in Main Belt, Solar System.

noun

Its eponymous giant white radish (“桜島大根”), cultivated nearby since at least the 18th century.

noun

Its eponymous citrus fruit (“桜島小みかん”), an orange cultivated nearby.

Etymology

From Japanese 桜島 (sakurajima, “Cherry Island”), from 桜 (sakura, “cherry tree, cherry blossom”) + 島 (shima, “island”). From its appearance like a cherry tree in bloom, when from a volcanic eruption, hot rock rains down onto the slopes, lighting up the island volcano.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Sakurajimas (plural)

Synonyms

Sakura-jima Sakurajima Island Sakurajima Peninsula Sakurajima Mountain Sakurajima Volcano 10516 10516 (1989 VQ) 1989 VQ 10516 (1989 VQ) Sakurajima 10516 Sakurajima sakurajima Sakurajima daikon

Questions

What does sakurajima mean?
A volcano in Kagoshima Bay, Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan, one of the IAVCEI's 17 Decade Volcanoes.
Where does sakurajima come from?
It is traced to Japanese.

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