Papuan

3 definitions found

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

  Papuan \Pap"u*an\, prop. a.
     Of or pertaining to Papua.
     [1913 Webster]

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



  Papuars \Pap"u*ars\, n. pl.; sing. {Papuan}. (Ethnol.)
     The native black race of Papua or New Guinea, and the
     adjacent islands.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Papuan
       adj : of or relating to Papua or its people or language; "Papuan
             native crafts"; "Papuan vowels"
       n : any of the indigenous languages spoken in Papua New Guinea
           or New Britain or the Solomon Islands that are not
           Malayo-Polynesian languages [syn: {Papuan language}]