Formosan

formosan English Etymology en :af Formosa -an + 1 Adjective Of or relating to Formosa. en 1864 w:Robert Swinhoe Notes on the Island of Formosa. w:The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London https://archive.org/details/s572id13663720/ XXXIV 1865 London John Murray (publishing house) John Murray 0266-6235 66168045 6 https://archive.org/details/s572id13663720/page/6/ In the ocean towards the east are two places called Tungkwan (Damp Limit) and Pih-mow (White Acre), which mark the spots where the dragons of the Formosan hills emerged. These sacred reptiles had pierced unseen the depths of ocean, and announcing their ascent to the surface by throwing up the bluff at Kelung-head, by a number of violent contortions heaved up the regular series of hills, valleys, and plains that extend north and south in varied undulations for the space of 1000 leagues (applied figuratively). The mountain-peaks are too multitudinous to enumerate, and the geography of the island too comprehensive to take into present consideration ; we will therefore confine ourselves to a few general remarks. In rear of the hills, eastward, flows the ocean ; facing them, to the westward, is the sea ; and between lies the prefecture of Taiwan.” en 1905 Archibald Little The Island Empire: Japan The Far East https://archive.org/details/fareast00litt_0/ Oxford w:Clarendon Press 2234766 283 https://archive.org/details/fareast00litt_0/page/283/ The great Jesuit missionary, St. Francis Xavier, also spent some time at Öita, and Otomo, its lord, was the first Daimio to embrace Christianity. Still farther south, and in line with these, stretches the chain of the Liuchiu islands, the westernmost of the group lying within 50 miles of the Formosan coast. en 2025-04-22 Hua Meng-ching Hollie Younger Formosan black bear shot and killed in Hualien w:Taipei Times https://web.archive.org/web/20250724005734/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2025/04/22/2003835634 https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2025/04/22/2003835634 2025-07-24 1563-9525 464696902 Taiwan News 2 A patrolman shot and killed a Formosan black bear in self defense last night, after it turned on the man who saw it attacking a dog in Hualien County’s Jhuosi Township (zh 卓溪).Jhuosi Township Mayor Huang Pin-lun (zh 黃品綸) announced news of the bear’s capture this morning and expressed apologies to the villagers for the fear and disruption caused by the recent bear sightings.The Hualien branch has been working with the Formosan Wild Sound Conservation Science Center since 2020 to monitor Formosan black bears in Jhuosi Township, branch Director Huang Chun-tse (zh 黃群策) said. Derived terms en Formosan termite Formosan wood mouse Translations of or relating to Formosa Finnish: fi formosalainen French: fr formosan Irish: ga Formósach Kapampangan: pam Pormosyanu Portuguese: pt formosano Noun An inhabitant, resident, or a person of descent from Formosa. en https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.80805/ 1926 The Chronicles of the East India Company trading to China w:Hosea Ballou Morse w:Clarendon Press 1 48 From his base at Amoy the Emperor Kanghi dispatched a fleet of 600 junks against Formosa. In two naval battles, on July 1 and 7, 1683, they defeated the Formosans, and occupied Penghu, one of the Pescadores Islands, forming the key of Taiwan. Translations inhabitant of Formosa Finnish: fi formosalainen Irish: ga Formósach m Portuguese: pt formosano m Finnish Proper noun fi proper noun form fi Formosa gen s