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Of or pertaining to Asia or to its inhabitants. -- n.

Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants. -- n. A native or an inhabitant of Assyria; the language of Assyria.

A native or an inhabitant of Australasia.

A native or an inhabitant of Australia.

Of or pertaining to Austria, or to its inhabitants. -- n.

One who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians.

The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.

Of or relating to one of the early races in Mexico that inhabited the great plateau of that country at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1519. -- n.

An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean.

hick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana or Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.

h family, having a broad bannerlike dorsal fin; the sailfish. One species (H. Americanus) inhabits the North Atlantic.

(Zoöl.), an ape (Macacus innus) of north Africa and Gibraltar Rock, being the only monkey inhabiting Europe. It is very commonly trained by showmen.

k swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.

America northward of the forest regions. -- Barren Ground bear (Zoöl.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting the Barren Grounds, now believed to be a variety of the brown bear of Europe. -- Barren Ground caribou (Zoöl.), a small reindeer (Rangifer Groenlandicus) peculiar to the Barren Grounds and Greenland.

imus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species.

One of a race, of unknown origin, inhabiting a region on the Bay of Biscay in Spain and France.

A native or inhabitant of Batavia or Holland. [R.] Bancroft.

A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria. Bavarian cream. See under Cream.

Arkansas; -- a nickname, from the many bears once inhabiting its forests.