sunda islands
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.36 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A group of islands in the Malay Archipelago.
name
Alternative letter-case form of Sunda Islands.
Example Sentences
- "The Sunda Islands are divided into two groups, the Greater Sunda Islands — viz., Sumatra, and Java, with their dependencies; and the Lesser Sunda Islands, comprising all that lie E. of Java, Timor being the chief."
- "On the other hand, the Sunda Islands have been extensively studied, if on a broad scale, and allow us to draw valid comparisons."
- "It is also likely that Nasalis larvatus (Borneo) and Simias concolor (Mentawai Islands) were already present as endemic taxa in the Late Pliocene, and that their last common ancestor had arrived in the Sunda islands by the early Pliocene."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
the Sunda Islands (canonical, plural)
Sunda Island (attributive)