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Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies.

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  1. a. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk.
  3. a. Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like.
  4. n. A native or inhabitant of India.
  5. n. One of the aboriginal inhabitants of America; -- so called originally from the supposed identity of America with India.
  6. adj. of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures
  7. adj. of or pertaining to Native Americans or their culture or languages
  8. n. a native or inhabitant of India
  9. n. any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
  10. j:64/n:36 n. a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived n. a native or inhabitant of India a. of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures