Indochinese
Americanadjective
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of or relating to Indochina or its inhabitants.
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Sino-Tibetan (no longer current).
noun
plural
Indochinese-
an inhabitant of Indochina.
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Sino-Tibetan (no longer current).
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of Indochinese
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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Members of this genus are found throughout East Asia and the northern Indochinese Peninsula, where they occupy a wide variety of mountain habitats.
From Science Daily
He started in 2006 with the naked mole rat and has since photographed thousands more, including the Indochinese green magpie, the Arabian cobra, and the güiña, a small spotted cat from South America.
From National Geographic
A decrepit freighter riding at anchor out in Singapore Harbor, he wrote, was laden with 249 Indochinese refugees who had boarded the ship in Thailand and had lived on its open deck, through pitching storms and merciless days of baking sun, for four months, finding no haven in port after port.
From New York Times
“In the sad picture of the wanderings on land and sea of tens of thousands of refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia since the end of the Indochinese war two years ago,” Mr. Kamm wrote from Singapore, “nothing exemplifies so fully all the ironies and pain of people who thought they were choosing freedom and wound up in a limbo of hostility or indifference from those from whom they expected help.”
From New York Times
Because of Mr. Kamm’s reports, the Pulitzer judges noted, the United States and several other nations eventually opened their doors to the Indochinese refugees.
From New York Times
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