Meanings
- uncountableNatives or residents of Amboyna (Ambon Island).
Having made arrangements to stay for three weeks at a small hut on a newly cleared plantation in the interior of the northern half of the island, I with some difficulty obtained a boat and men to take me across the water--for the Amboynese are dreadfully lazy.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 462
- not comparableOf or relating to Amboyna.
The Amboynese species, of which a very accurate representation is here given, is one of the largest and handsomest.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 469
Origin
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Amboynese. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Amboynese
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