Indo-Asian

adjective

Of or pertaining to Indo-Asia.

Meanings

adjectiveIndo-Asian (comparative more Indo-Asian, superlative most Indo-Asian)

comparative more Indo-Asian · superlative most Indo-Asian · alternative Indoasian

  1. Of or pertaining to Indo-Asia.

    This is another one of those unexpected Indo-Asian dishes that keeps things interesting.

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    The Indo-Asian car really has revived the speculation on vast possibilities of reaping benefits from trade and tourism that could take place between NER and South-East Asian nations.

    2010, Jaynal Uddin Ahmed, Development Vision of North-East India, →ISBN, page 35

    Asian frogs of the tribe Paini (Anura: Dicroglossidae) range across several first-order tectono-morphological domains of the Cenozoic Indo-Asian collision that include the Tibetan Plateau, the Himalayas, and Indochina.

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    One certainly finds far more nostalgia for Nehruvian Indo-Asian unity in Delhi than in any of the capitals of Southeast Asia.

    2015, Jonah Blank, Jennifer D. P. Moroney, Angel Rabasa, Look East, Cross Black Waters: India's Interest in Southeast Asia, →ISBN
  2. Having mixed Indian and Asian ancestry.

    At that point, Cindy had a little coughing fit, and one of the female grad students, a girl who looked Indo-Asian, stood a bit straighter and got a weird look in her eye.

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    The diplomat summed up, 'as far as I could make it out, the line of the President's thought is that an Indo-Asian or Eurasian or (better) Eurindasian race could be developed which could be good and produce a good civilisation and Far East order to the exclusion of the Japanese, languishing in Coventry within their original islands'.

    2006, Diana Preston, Before the Fall-Out: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima, →ISBN, page 490

    Over the last 30 years, the makeup of Skokie's population has become more ethnically diverse as new families have moved into the area. Many of these families have Indo-Asian origins.

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    The gentleman, who identified himself as Mohamed, was of Muslim heritage; his skin had a very dark hue, and the nose and his facial structure were that of an Indo-Asian heritage.

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nounIndo-Asian (plural Indo-Asians)

plural Indo-Asians · alternative Indoasian

  1. A person native to the Indo-Asian continent or of mixed Indian and Asian ancestry.

    In contrast the prevalence rate was lower amongst in Indo-Asians, at 0.6% [78].

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    This is typically the case in West London in vegetarian Indo-Asians with chronic renal impairment.

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    That's because obesity-related complications are much more common, and start at a lower BMI, in some ethnic groups. The World Health Organisation defines obesity in Indo-Asians, for instance, at BMI over 27.

    2010, Sarah Jarvis, Alan L. Rubin, Diabetes for Dummies, →ISBN

    His wife was Lucina Singh, a Third Gen Indo-Asian with a hugely bad attitude, who acted as the ship's navigator.

    2015, Jamie Sawyer, The Lazarus War: Redemption: A Lazarus War Novella, →ISBN

Origin

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APA

Indo-Asian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Indo-Asian

MLA

“Indo-Asian.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Indo-Asian. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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