Formosa

[ fawr-moh-suh ]

/ fɔrˈmoʊ sə /

noun

Taiwan.

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Examples from the Web for formosa

Chinese, Japanese and Malays have traded and warred and treated on the debatable land of Formosa.
Influences of Geographic Environment|Ellen Churchill Semple
Experimental observations on the dissemination of diseases by cockroaches in Formosa.
The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches|Louis M. Roth
They have forty chapels or oratories, twenty schools for boys and girls, and a seminary in the town of Ta-Kow in Formosa.
The Friars in the Philippines|Ambrose Coleman
The vicariate is divided into fourteen districts, half of which are in Formosa.
The Friars in the Philippines|Ambrose Coleman

Do you remember the scarlet Leschenaultia formosa with the sticky margin outside the indusium?
More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II|Charles Darwin

British Dictionary definitions for formosa

Formosa

/ (fɔːˈməʊsə) /

noun

the former name of Taiwan

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