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Sumatran. World English Historical Dictionary

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Sumatran. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2024. Sumatran a. and sb. [f. prec. + -AN.]

1   A.  adj. Of or pertaining to the island of Sumatra or its inhabitants or language.

2 1783.  W. Marsden, Sumatra, 36. The genuine Sumatran character.

3 1850.  Latham, Nat. Hist. Man, 140. The wildest varieties of the Sumatran tribes.

4 1887.  Encycl. Brit., XXII. 639/2. A remarkable feature of the Sumatran flora is the great variety of trees that vie with each other in stature and beauty.

5   b.  In names of animals indigenous to Sumatra, as Sumatran antelope, ape, broadbill, grosbeak, hare, rhinoceros, tapir; Sumatran monkey, one of the sacred monkeys, Semnopithecus melalophus; Sumatran pheasant, the Argus pheasant (see ARGUS 2).

6 1793.  Pennant, Hist. Quad. (ed. 3), II. 321. *Sumatran Antelope … Cambing ootan, or Goat of the Woods.

7 1838.  Penny Cycl., XII. 408/1. These *Sumatran Apes … exhibit strong maternal affection.

8 1880.  Cassell’s Nat. Hist., IV. 119. The same author [sc. Davison] writes of the *Sumatran Broadbill.

9 1801.  Latham, Gen. Synopsis Birds, Suppl. II. 194. *Sumatran Gr[osbeak] Loxia hypoxantha…. Inhabits the rice fields of the island of Sumatra.

10 1887.  Encycl. Brit., XXII. 640/1. The *Sumatran hare (Lepus netscheri), discovered in 1880.

11 1871.  Cassell’s Nat. Hist., I. 95. The *Sumatran Monkey, in which the female is light brown and the male is a most extraordinary-looking yellow.

12 1783.  W. Marsden, Sumatra, 97. The coo-ow, or famous *Sumatran or Argos pheasant.

13 1834.  Penny Cycl., II. 483/2. The *Sumatran rhinoceros (vR. Sumatrensis) resembles the African species.

14 1849.  Pickering, Races of Man (1851), 314. The *Sumatran Tapir.

15   B.  sb. A native or inhabitant of the island of Sumatra; also, the Sumatran language.

16 1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, III. v. 233/1. The Sumatrans do wear Turbuts on their heads.

17 1783.  W. Marsden, Sumatra, 56. The Sumatrans live, in a great measure, upon vegetable food.

18 1796.  Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 593. The original clothing of the Sumatrans is the same with that of the inhabitants of the South Sea islands.

19 1813.  Q. Rev., Oct., 257. Languages and Dialects … Cingalese, Malayan, Sumatran.

20 1850.  Latham, Nat. Hist. Man, 151. The Malaccan origin of the earlier Sumatrans.

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