Australasian
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Etymology edit
Australasia + -an
Adjective edit
Australasian (not comparable)
- Relating to Australia and its surrounding regions of New Guinea, Indonesia, and the south west Pacific Ocean.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 4:
- Much more diffuse affinities occur to the Australasian monotypic Goebeliellaceae.
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relating to Australia and its surrounding regions
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Noun edit
Australasian (plural Australasians)
- A native or inhabitant of Australasia.
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a native or inhabitant of Australasia
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