Usually means: Beautiful island, formerly named Taiwan.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. Formosa: Merriam-Webster
  2. Formosa: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Formosa: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Formosa: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Formosa: Vocabulary.com
  6. Formosa, formosa: Wordnik
  7. Formosa: Wiktionary
  8. Formosa: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Formosa: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. formosa: Dictionary.com
  11. Formosa: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Formosa (Guinea-Bissau), Formosa (disambiguation), Formosa (film), Formosa (surname), Formosa: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Formosa: Rhymezone
  14. Formosa: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  15. formosa: FreeDictionary.org
  16. formosa: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Formosa: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Tea Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Formosa: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. formosa: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Formosa: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Formosa)

noun:  (dated) Synonym of Taiwan, an island in East Asia.
noun:  Synonym of Taiwan, an administrative division including Formosa and nearby islands.
noun:  (historical) A prefecture of Fujian, China (Qing Empire) (1683–1885).
noun:  (historical) A province of China (Qing Empire) (1885–1895).
noun:  (historical) A dependency of Japan (1895–1945).
noun:  (dated) A province of Taiwan (Republic of China) (from 1945).
noun:  (dated) A claimed province of China (People's Republic of China/mainland China) (from 1949).
noun:  A city in Goias, Brazil.
noun:  An island in the Bissagos Islands, Guinea-Bissau.
noun:  A city in northern Argentina.
noun:  A department of Argentina around the city.
noun:  A province of Argentina around the city.
noun:  A surname from Maltese.

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