Indo-Pacific
a proposed linguistic family including all the non-Austronesian languages of the Pacific peoples.
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How to use Indo-Pacific in a sentence
There are about three hundred and fifty species known, mostly tropical and Indo-Pacific in distribution.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote ArnoldThe fish-fauna of the Indo-Pacific is much richer than that of the Atlantic, both as regards genera and species.
The women of the Indo-Pacific area belong to certain great classes or groups of humanity.
Oriental Women | Edward Bagby PollardIt is true, however, that in the Indo-Pacific area we are more or less in the suburbs of the world.
Oriental Women | Edward Bagby PollardThe Indo-Pacific region is by far the most extensive of all.
Principles of Geology | Charles Lyell
British Dictionary definitions for Indo-Pacific
of or relating to the region of the Indian and W Pacific Oceans off the coast of SE Asia
a hypothetical family of languages relating the languages of New Guinea other than Malayo-Polynesian. Tentative affiliations with Malayo-Polynesian or Australian languages have been suggested
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