"Formosan" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Formosa + -an",
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        {
          "word": "Formosan termite"
        },
        {
          "word": "Formosan wood mouse"
        }
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          "ref": "1905, Archibald Little, “The Island Empire: Japan”, in The Far East, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 283",
          "text": "The great Jesuit missionary, St. Francis Xavier, also spent some time at Öita, and Otomo, its lord, was the first Daimio to embrace Christianity. Still farther south, and in line with these, stretches the chain of the Liuchiu islands, the westernmost of the group lying within 50 miles of the Formosan coast.",
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        "Of or relating to Formosa or people of Formosa."
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "of or relating to Formosa",
          "word": "formosalainen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "of or relating to Formosa",
          "word": "formosan"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "of or relating to Formosa",
          "word": "Formósach"
        },
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          "code": "pam",
          "lang": "Kapampangan",
          "sense": "of or relating to Formosa",
          "word": "Pormosyanu"
        },
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          "sense": "of or relating to Formosa",
          "word": "formosano"
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  "word": "Formosan"
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  "etymology_text": "Formosa + -an",
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      "form": "Formosans",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1926, Hosea Ballou Morse, The Chronicles of the East India Company trading to China, volume 1, Clarendon Press, page 48",
          "text": "From his base at Amoy the Emperor Kanghi dispatched a fleet of 600 junks against Formosa. In two naval battles, on July 1 and 7, 1683, they defeated the Formosans, and occupied Penghu, one of the Pescadores Islands, forming the key of Taiwan.",
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        "An inhabitant, resident, or a person of descent from Formosa."
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "inhabitant of Formosa",
          "word": "formosalainen"
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          "code": "ga",
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          "sense": "inhabitant of Formosa",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "inhabitant of Formosa",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "formosano"
        }
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  "word": "Formosan"
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    {
      "word": "Formosan termite"
    },
    {
      "word": "Formosan wood mouse"
    }
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of or relating to Formosa",
      "word": "formosalainen"
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      "sense": "of or relating to Formosa",
      "word": "formosan"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "of or relating to Formosa",
      "word": "Formósach"
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      "sense": "of or relating to Formosa",
      "word": "Pormosyanu"
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      "sense": "of or relating to Formosa",
      "word": "formosano"
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  "word": "Formosan"
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          "text": "From his base at Amoy the Emperor Kanghi dispatched a fleet of 600 junks against Formosa. In two naval battles, on July 1 and 7, 1683, they defeated the Formosans, and occupied Penghu, one of the Pescadores Islands, forming the key of Taiwan.",
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      ],
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        "An inhabitant, resident, or a person of descent from Formosa."
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "inhabitant of Formosa",
      "word": "formosalainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "inhabitant of Formosa",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Formósach"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "inhabitant of Formosa",
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "formosano"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Formosan"
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