Indochinese

1 definition found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Indochinese \In`do*chi*nese"\, Indo-Chinese \In`do-Chi*nese"\,
     prop. a. [Indo- + Chinese.]
     1. Of or pertaining to Indo-China (i. e., Farther India, or
        India beyond the Ganges).
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. Of or pert. to the Mongoloid races of India, esp. Farther
        India, or designating, or of, their languages.
  
              Tradition and comparative philology agree in
              pointing to northwestern China, between the upper
              courses of the Yang-tsekiang and of the Ho-ang-ho,
              as the original home of the Indo-Chinese race.
                                                    --Census of
                                                    India, 1901.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]