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Balboa

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Bal·bo·a  (bl-b), Vasco Núñez de 1475-1517.
Spanish explorer and colonial governor who discovered (1513) the Pacific Ocean and claimed it for Spain.

bal·bo·a  (bl-b)
n.
See Table at currency.

[After Vasco Núñez de Balboa.]

balboa [bælˈbəʊə]
n
(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Currencies) the standard currency unit of Panama, divided into 100 centesimos
[named after Vasco Núñez de Balboa (?1475-1519), Spanish explorer]

Balboa [bælˈbəʊə (Spanish) balˈβoa]
n
(Placename) a port in Panama at the Pacific end of the Panama Canal: the administrative centre of the former Canal Zone. Pop.: 2750 (1990)

Balboa1
n
(Biographies / Balboa, Vasco Núñez de (?1475-1519) M, Spanish, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: explorer) Vasco Núñez de (ˈbasko ˈnuɲeθ de). ?1475-1519, Spanish explorer, who discovered the Pacific Ocean in 1513
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Noun1.balboa - the basic unit of money in Panama; equal to 100 centesimos
Panamanian monetary unit - monetary unit in Panama
centesimo - a fractional monetary unit of several countries: Panama and Italy and Uruguay and Chile
2.Balboa - Spanish explorer who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Darien and became the first European to see the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean (1475-1519)Balboa - Spanish explorer who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Darien and became the first European to see the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean (1475-1519)


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