Crossword clues for otaheite
otaheite
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Usage examples of "otaheite".
Branches laden, an otaheite tree bobbed tumescent maroon fruit, so low that the lady could have plucked them with her mouth.
The same custom is also observed in Japan, in the isles of the Southern Ocean, at Otaheite, and among several savage nations of North America.
The ship which Bligh now commanded was specially fitted to convey specimens of the breadfruit tree from Tahiti--the Otaheite of Cook--to the West Indies, in the hope that the tree would there take root and flourish and furnish as bountiful a food supply to the negroes of those islands as it did to the light, copper-coloured people of the isles of the Pacific.
The natives of Otaheite entertain similar notions respecting these things, viz.