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Of or pertaining to Polynesia (the islands of the eastern and central Pacific), or to the Polynesians.

A guide. [Cuba & Phil. Islands] D. C. Worcester.

A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the f…

cket or list of candidates at elections, presented to the people for their votes." [Rhode Island] Bartlett.

le substance consisting of soft, elastic, yellowish brown chaff, gathered in the Hawaiian Islands from the young fronds of free ferns of the genus Cibotium, chiefly C. Menziesii; -- used for stuffing mattresses, cushions, etc., and as an absorbent.

ong, being able to crack cocoanuts with the large claw. They chiefly inhabit the tropical islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, living in holes and feeding upon fruit. Called also palm crab. -- Purse net, a fishing net, the mouth of which may be closed or drawn together like a purse. Mortimer. Purse pride, pride o…

everal species of very small green parrots (Nasiternæ), native of New Guinea and adjacent islands. They are not larger than sparrows. Pygmy chimpanzee, a species of anthropoid ape (Pan paniscus) resembling the chimpanzee, but somewhat smaller; also called bonobo. It is considered (1996) as having the closest genetic re…

handsome crested ground pigeons of the genus Goura, native of New Guinea and the adjacent islands. They are mostly pale blue, or ash- blue, marked with white, and have a large occipital crest of spatulate feathers. Called also crowned pigeon, goura, and Victoria pigeon. -- Queen regent, or Queen regnant, a queen reign…

ch; considerably. "Quite amusing." Macaulay. He really looks quite concerned. Landor. The island stretches along the land and is quite close to it. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

root, and the Lachnanthes tinctoria, an endogenous plant found in sandy swamps from Rhode Island to Florida.

t; conviction; assurance. [Obs.] Little resolution and certainty there is as touching the islands of Mauritania. Holland.

Of or pertaining to Rhodes, an island of the Mediterranean. -- n.

A portion of the southern equatorial current flowing westward from the Fiji Islands to New Guinea.

A fruit bat, especially the large species (Pieropus vulgaris) inhabiting the islands of the Indian ocean. It measures about a yard across the expanded wings.

Of or pertaining to the island of Samos. Fill high the cup with Samian wine. Byreon. Samian earth, a species of clay from Samoa, formerly used in medicine as an astringent.

Of or pertaining to the Samoan Islands (formerly called Navigators' Islands) in the South Pacific Ocean, or their inhabitants. -- n.

rs. There are less than a dozen species, occuring from India to Australia and the Pacific Islands. See Sandalwood.

elded by Cæsalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. [Written also sappan wood.]

Of or pertaining to the island, kingdom, or people of Sardinia. -- n.

A kind of ornamental hard-glazed pottery made at Satsuma in Kiushu, one of the Japanese islands.