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Meaning of tripoli

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  tripoli
      n 1: a weathered and decomposed siliceous limestone; in powdered
           form it is used in polishing [syn: {rottenstone},
           {tripoli}]
      2: the capital and chief port and largest city of Libya; in
         northwestern Libya on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by the
         Phoenicians in the 7th century BC [syn: {Tripoli}, {Tarabulus
         Al-Gharb}, {capital of Libya}]
      3: a port city and commercial center in northwestern Lebanon on
         the Mediterranean Sea [syn: {Tarabulus}, {Tripoli},
         {Tarabulus Ash-Sham}, {Trablous}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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