Indochinese

[in-doh-chahy-neez, -nees]

adjective

1. of or relating to Indochina or its inhabitants.

2. Sino-Tibetan (no longer current).

noun

plural

Indochinese 

1. an inhabitant of Indochina.

2. Sino-Tibetan (no longer current).

Indochinese

/ ˌɪndəʊtʃaɪˈniːz /

adjective

1. of or relating to Indochina or its inhabitants

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Indochina

Word History and Origins

Origin of Indochinese¹

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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“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.”

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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.

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Jolie the Indochinese green magpie is one lucky bird.

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