exclave

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A portion of a country's territory not connected to the main part.

   Alaska and Kaliningrad are both examples of exclaves.

2. noun A detached part of an organ, as of the pancreas, thyroid (accessory thyroids), or other gland.
3. verb To separate a region in a way that turns it into an exclave.

Similar words

pene-exclave enclave outpart pene-enclave subterritory outlying counterenclave subplace outportion sublocale

Often followed by

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Word family

exclaves