Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or relating to Sumatra, a large island of the Malay archipelago, lying west of Borneo and northwest of Java, or of or relating to its inhabitants.
- noun A native or an inhabitant of Sumatra.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Sumatra or its inhabitants.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a native or inhabitant of Sumatra
- adjective of or relating to the island of Sumatra or its inhabitants
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Examples
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If I could figure out how to send you some pot I would only I am terribly naive about such things and only know that you pack it in a bag of whole bean sumatran coffee to mail it but have no idea how to obtain it.
Ow! Elizabeth McClung 2008
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For the first time in his life, the six-year-old sumatran orang-utan is in charge of who he hangs out with and what he eats.
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