dictionary definitions for "formosan"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  Formosan
      adj : of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic
            on Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the
            Taiwanese capital is Taipeh" [syn: Taiwanese,
            Chinese, Formosan]
      n : the Austronesian languages spoken on Formosa [syn:
          Formosan]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Formosan \Formosan\ prop. adj.
     of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, Formosa or the
     natives of Formosa; as, The native Formosan population now
     forms a minority on their own island..
  
     Syn: Taiwanese, Chinese.
          [WordNet 1.5]


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