Palaweño

plural Palaweños

1. An inhabitant of the Palawan island.

   The major fear of Palaweños such as our guides, as they watch their forests disappear, is not the loss of beauty.

   1994, Robin Broad, John Cavanagh, Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 43

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   Many Palaweños, subjected to air raids and wide ranging abuses from the Japanese, fled into the hills to build primitive homes near the native Batak tribesmen.

   2016, Stephen L. Moore, As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp, Penguin, →ISBN

   Synonyms: Palawan, Palawano, Pala'wan