adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of Tahitian
Example Sentences
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During the Bounty’s infamous mutiny, Tahitian breadfruit saplings filled its hold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Pitcairn's people are descended from the mutineers and their Tahitian companions.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Army Corps of Engineers’ cleanup efforts, agreed to include Tahitian Terrace but not the Bowl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
"They poisoned us," Hinamoeura Cross, a 37-year-old Tahitian parliamentarian who was aged seven when France detonated its last nuclear explosion near her home in French Polynesia in 1996.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
Pomare V had abdicated eleven years previously; now he was dead and, with his death, the last dying gleams of Tahitian hopes for independence became extinct.
From Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art by John Gould Fletcher
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