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Australo-Melanesian

Australo-Melanesian noun: a member of a grouping of various people indigenous to Melanesia and Australia, sometimes also including some groups found in parts of South and Southeast Asia.

Noun

Australo-Melanesian (plural Australo-Melanesians)

  1. (archaic) A member of a grouping of various people indigenous to Melanesia and Australia, sometimes also including some groups found in parts of South and Southeast Asia.

Synonyms of Australo-Melanesian

Forms of Australo-Melanesian

pluralAustralo-Melanesians

Origin of Australo-Melanesian

From Australo- + Melanesian.

Questions about Australo-Melanesian

What does Australo-Melanesian mean?
Australo-Melanesian means a member of a grouping of various people indigenous to Melanesia and Australia, sometimes also including some groups found in parts of South and Southeast Asia.
What part of speech is Australo-Melanesian?
Australo-Melanesian is a noun.
What is the plural of Australo-Melanesian?
The plural of Australo-Melanesian is Australo-Melanesians.

Words near Australo-Melanesian in the dictionary

  1. australized
  2. australizes
  3. australizing
  4. australly
  5. Australo-
  6. Australo-Melanesian
  7. Australo-Melanesians
  8. Australo-Papuan babbler
  9. australobatrachian
  10. australobatrachians
  11. australochelyid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Australo-Melanesian (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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