Micronesianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -iːʒən

名詞

Micronesian (plural Micronesians)

1. A person from Micronesia or of Micronesian descent.
   • 2008 January 18, John Noble Wilford, “Pacific Islanders’ Ancestry Emerges in Genetic Study”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 12 November 2020:

     The researchers also concluded that the genetic data showed that the Polynesians and Micronesians were most closely related to Taiwan Aborigines and East Asians.

形容詞

Micronesian (not comparable)

1. Of, from or pertaining to Micronesia or the Micronesian people.
   • 2007 May 27, Douglas Martin, “Kawika Kapahulehua Dies; Hawaiian Seafarer Was 76”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 8 June 2021:

     He felt having a Micronesian navigator meant he needed a pureblooded Polynesian, preferably a Hawaiian, as captain.