adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of Tahitian
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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
"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
Five months after her 100th birthday, the Palisades fire tore through Tahitian Terrace, destroying her double-wide trailer and 156 other homes in the park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2025
At least this conclusion seems forced on us by the account which William Ellis, perhaps our best authority on Tahitian religion, gives of the character of these worshipful beings.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Sir James George Frazer
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