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East Indian
noun
- an immigrant to the countries of the Caribbean (West Indies) who is of Indian origin; an Asian West Indian
adjective
- of, relating to, or originating in the East Indies
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AL is not just Pacino, it's an East Indian tree, and AM is not just talk-radio, it's a form of "to be."
There are also in the islands a considerable number of imported East Indian coolies and some Chinese.
It seemed that some months before he had been a purser on an East Indian liner.
Brent's British phlegm was mellowed by a luxuriance of imagination that he had inherited from an East Indian mother.
The oldest collection of folklore stories or myths now in existence is of East Indian origin and is preserved in the Sanskrit.
The island abounded with cassowaries, the East Indian ostrich, and wild hogs.
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