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balboa
noun
the former basic monetary unit of Panama
Balboa,
Vasco Núñez de 1475?-1519; Sp. explorer: 1st European to discover the Pacific Ocean (1513)
seaport in Panama, at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal: pop. 2,000
See balboa in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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