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Australasiatic

Australasiatic adjective: australasian.

Adjective

Australasiatic (not comparable)

  1. Australasian.
    • At the Moluccas, all nature already wears an Australasiatic (Papou) character; because, beyond some chiroptera which stretch as far as New Guinea, and the genus of hogs, all the mammifera originating in that country belong to the order of the marsupials...1857, Alfred Maury, George Robins Gliddon, Josiah Clark Nott, Indigenous Races of the Earth, page 645
    • Australasiatic Floristic Element: This element comprises genera from the South Pacific, i.e. Australasia as well as South America, and the Pacific islands.2011, Andres Moreira-Munoz, Plant Geography of Chile, page 92

Noun

Australasiatic (plural Australasiatics)

  1. An Australasian.
    • Mrs. Fetherstonehaigh, with her gifted generalship, would undertake to conquer on behalf of presentable Australasiatics whose purses were long enough, and aspirations hardy enough, to furnish forth the powerful gold and serviceable brass so peculiarly requisite...1899, H. Arnold Nelson, Green Barley: An Australian Story, page 126

Forms of Australasiatic

pluralAustralasiatics

Questions about Australasiatic

What does Australasiatic mean?
Australasiatic means australasian.
What part of speech is Australasiatic?
Australasiatic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Australasiatic in the dictionary

  1. Australasian slimwings
  2. Australasian swamphen
  3. Australasian swamphens
  4. Australasian treecreeper
  5. Australasians
  6. Australasiatic
  7. Australasiatics
  8. AustralE
  9. Australia
  10. Australia antigen
  11. Australia antigens

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