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Australasian

Australasian adjective: relating to Australia and its surrounding regions of New Guinea, Indonesia, and the south west Pacific Ocean.

Adjective

Australasian (not comparable)

  1. Relating to Australia and its surrounding regions of New Guinea, Indonesia, and the south west Pacific Ocean.
    • Much more diffuse affinities occur to the Australasian monotypic Goebeliellaceae.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4
    Synonyms:
    Oceanian

Noun

Australasian (plural Australasians)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Australasia.

Australasian meaning in Tamil

Australasian in Tamil

ஆஸ்திரலேஷியாவின் பழங்குடியினர், ஆஸ்திரலேஷியாவைச் சார்ந்த, ஆசியாவின் தென்கிழக்கு நாடுக சார்ந்த

Synonyms of Australasian

Forms of Australasian

pluralAustralasians

Origin of Australasian

From Australasia + -an.

Words formed from Australasian

Phrases with Australasian

Questions about Australasian

What does Australasian mean?
Australasian means relating to Australia and its surrounding regions of New Guinea, Indonesia, and the south west Pacific Ocean.
What is Australasian in Tamil?
Australasian in Tamil is ஆஸ்திரலேஷியாவின் பழங்குடியினர், ஆஸ்திரலேஷியாவைச் சார்ந்த, ஆசியாவின் தென்கிழக்கு நாடுக சார்ந்த. See Australasian meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Australasian?
Australasian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Australasian in the dictionary

  1. austral parakeet
  2. austral parakeets
  3. austral-
  4. Austral.
  5. Australasia
  6. Australasian
  7. Australasian figbird
  8. Australasian figbirds
  9. Australasian pig-nose turtle
  10. Australasian pig-nose turtles
  11. Australasian robin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Australasian (page history and authors); Australasian (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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