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What does Formosa mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Formosa? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. The name given to Taiwan island (Ilha Formosa, "Beautiful Isle") by passing Portuguese mariners in 1544.
  2. The name of a province of Argentina.
  3. A city of Argentina, capital of Formosa Province.
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Of those that reached the shores of Formosa and splashed through the water to the junks, we hurried to untie the ships and rowed fiercely regardless of the winds.
For example, in 1870 survivors of the English barque Humberstone shipwrecked off Formosa, were rescued by a junk and landed safely in Macao.
A tree of the mountains of Japan and Formosa, cultivated extensively.
It's easy to miss the turn to a titch of a village that runs alongside the Ria Formosa.
Rice paper is made of the pith of a tree found only in Formosa.
The Lanfang Republic era, Republic of Formosa era and Republic of China era are era names without an emperor.

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