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seychelles

UK/seɪˈʃɛlz/US/seɪˈʃɛlz/
nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

The Seychelles are Indian Ocean islands of granite boulders and honeymoon beaches. Sail the Seychelles.

The inner ones are granite rather than coral, which is very rare for ocean islands. Seychelles has the largest seed of any plant, the coco de mer, which weighs kilos.

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Definitions of seychelles

  1. 1nounseychellesIndian Ocean islands of granite boulders and honeymoon beaches.B2

    “Seychelles lies about a thousand miles east of Kenya.”

seychelles is a country.

Where it comes from

Seychelles After French - official and politician Jean Moreau de Séchelles.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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