"Mélanésie" meaning in French

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    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nl",
            "2": "Melanesië",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Dutch: Melanesië",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Dutch: Melanesië"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "Melanesia",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: Melanesia",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: Melanesia"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "Melanesien",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: Melanesien",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: Melanesien"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "μέλας",
        "4": "",
        "5": "dark"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “dark”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "νῆσος",
        "3": "",
        "4": "island"
      },
      "expansion": "νῆσος (nêsos, “island”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Coined by Jules Dumont d'Urville, from Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “dark”) + νῆσος (nêsos, “island”), referring to the skin color of the inhabitants.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "Mélanésie f",
      "name": "fr-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "name",
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    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French exonyms",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "fr",
          "name": "Regions of Oceania",
          "orig": "fr:Regions of Oceania",
          "parents": [
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            "Places",
            "Oceania",
            "Political subdivisions",
            "Names",
            "Earth",
            "Polities",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Nature",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
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        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "mélanésien"
        },
        {
          "word": "Mélanésien"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Melanesia (a region of Oceania)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Mélanésie-fr-name-41-vaidX",
      "links": [
        [
          "Melanesia",
          "Melanesia#English"
        ],
        [
          "Oceania",
          "Oceania#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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        "Jules Dumont d'Urville",
        "fr:Mélanésie"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/me.la.ne.zi/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Mélanésie"
}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "mélanésien"
    },
    {
      "word": "Mélanésien"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nl",
            "2": "Melanesië",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Dutch: Melanesië",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Dutch: Melanesië"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "Melanesia",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: Melanesia",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: Melanesia"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "Melanesien",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: Melanesien",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: Melanesien"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "μέλας",
        "4": "",
        "5": "dark"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “dark”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "νῆσος",
        "3": "",
        "4": "island"
      },
      "expansion": "νῆσος (nêsos, “island”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Coined by Jules Dumont d'Urville, from Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “dark”) + νῆσος (nêsos, “island”), referring to the skin color of the inhabitants.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "Mélanésie f",
      "name": "fr-proper noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "name",
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        "French 4-syllable words",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French exonyms",
        "French feminine nouns",
        "French lemmas",
        "French proper nouns",
        "French terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "fr:Regions of Oceania"
      ],
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        "Melanesia (a region of Oceania)"
      ],
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        [
          "Melanesia",
          "Melanesia#English"
        ],
        [
          "Oceania",
          "Oceania#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "feminine"
      ],
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        "Jules Dumont d'Urville",
        "fr:Mélanésie"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/me.la.ne.zi/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Mélanésie"
}