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Melanesian

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to Melanesia. not-comparable

    "While Melanesian cannibals make "long pig," barbecuing enemies, legal and political cannibals in San Francisco put a beautiful wealthy woman, Penny Penny Hill, on trial for murder […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to Melanesia or its people or culture wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A Melanesian person.

    "Blackbirding was the euphemism given to the slave-trading that occurred in the Pacific from the mid-1800s through to the early-1900s. According to one study, blackbirding, [as] “the practice of luring Melanesians and Polynesians to toil for next to nothing was called”, involved upwards of 60,000 people between 1863 and 1904 (Horne, 2007, p. 2)."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Melanesia + -an.

Etymology 2

From Melanesia + -an.

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