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Australasiatic
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Adjective
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Australasian.
en 1857 Alfred Maury; George Robins Gliddon; Josiah Clark Nott Indigenous Races of the Earth 645 At the Moluccas, all nature already wears an Australasiatic (Papou) character; because, beyond some chiroptera which stretch as far as New Guinea, and the genus of hogs, all the mammifera originating in that country belong to the order of the marsupials...
en 2011 Andres Moreira-Munoz Plant Geography of Chile 92 Australasiatic Floristic Element: This element comprises genera from the South Pacific, i.e. Australasia as well as South America, and the Pacific islands.
Noun
An Australasian.
en 1899 H. Arnold Nelson Green Barley: An Australian Story 126 Mrs. Fetherstonehaigh, with her gifted generalship, would undertake to conquer on behalf of presentable Australasiatics whose purses were long enough, and aspirations hardy enough, to furnish forth the powerful gold and serviceable brass so peculiarly requisite...