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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the basic unit of money in Panama; equal to 100 centesimos;

2. 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);
[syn: Balboa, Vasco Nunez de Balboa]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

balboa n 1: the basic unit of money in Panama; equal to 100 centesimos 2: 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) [syn: Balboa, Vasco Nunez de Balboa]