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Madagascan

Madagascan \Madagascan\ prop. a.

  1. of or pertaining to Madagascar; as, Madagascan pepper.

  2. of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Madagascar; as, Madagascan soldiers.

Madagascan

Madagascan \Madagascan\ peop. n. a native or inhabitant of Madagascar.

Usage examples of "madagascan".

Apollo 18, including the Australians, Madagascans, Spaniards, Guamanians, Antiguans and Ascension Islanders who manned stations at their various locations, was a crew-cut Colorado farm boy from the little village of Buckingham in the drylands.

In fact, it comes from a small Madagascan supplier of Ukrainian descent whose total output is pledged to the Laccadive Antiseparist Crusade.

Its origins date back to a period in earth's history when Madagascar was still part of mainland Africa (which itself had been part of the gigantic supercontinent of Gondwanaland), at which time the ancestors of the Madagascan lemurs were the dominant primate in all the world.