A native or inhabitant of Mauritius

Usage examples of mauritian.

Right now, they are comparing the dodo gene sequence to samples on loan from the Mauritian museum, to see if the dodo is really a pigeon or not.

Turkeys have already assisted in resuscitating Mauritian biological rarities.

So maybe after this, next to the dodo rampant on the Mauritian crest of arms, we should consider adding a turkey.

This got a good chuckle out of the few Mauritian officials left in the room, just as Kenneth had intended.

Their presence here was unremarkable, and Shasa was on excellent terms with the Mauritian government and most of the influential figures on the island.

RIB boat five Marines, two merchant mariners, the foreign office adviser and me miles north of Diego Garcia checking the offshore islands in the Chagos Archipelago for yachts or any Russian or Mauritian ships illegally taking the fish off the coral reefs in British territorial waters.

It is inhabited by 1,500 US Navy and Air force personnel, 1,500 Ipak and Mauritian workers to do all the third-rate jobs and forty-two Brits.

Boadicea, with a barrel of providently salted penguins from off the Cape serving as geese or turkeys, according to the taste and fancy of the mess, and plum-duff blazing faint blue under the awnings spread against the fiercer blaze of the Mauritian sun.

I used her for repairing Art Deco ceramics, until she went ape with a Mauritian singer.

Nereide had traversed the country in all directions, doing no harm to private property, paying for whatever they needed, treating the private Mauritians civilly, and routing all the meagre troops that the southern commander could bring against them, the attitude of the militia came more to resemble a neutrality, and a benevolent neutrality at that.