1. A unit of weight equal to one-sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams
   "The recipe called for 4 oz. of butter";
   - ounce

1. A nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
   - Australia, Commonwealth of Australia
    
2. The smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean
   - Australia

Type of: avoirdupois unit, continent, country, land, state

Part of: British Commonwealth, Commonwealth, Commonwealth of Nations, eastern hemisphere, lb, orient, pound, Southern Hemisphere

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