West Indiann.adj.

Brit.

/ˌwɛst ˈɪndɪən/, U.S.

/ˌwɛst ˈɪndiən/

Forms: see west adv., adj., n.¹, and prep. and Indian adj. and n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: west adj., Indian n.

Etymology: < west adj. + Indian n., after West India as a geographical term (see West India n.). Compare East Indian n., East Indian adj.

A. n.

a. A native or inhabitant of the West Indies.Originally referring to the parts of North America discovered by early navigators and subsequently restricted to the islands of the Caribbean; used first of the indigenous population, and subsequently both of settlers of European origin and of people of African origin brought to the area as slaves.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of West Indies > [noun] > original

West Indian1555

1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 310^v The west Indians which are all togyther in general eyther purple, or tawny lyke vnto sodde quynses, or of the coloure of chestnuttes or olyues.

1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft iii. xv. 64 The West Indians..doo the like.

1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xiii. 177 Those [cruelties] that were practised by the Spanish nation vpon the West Indians.

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words at Weroance A name given to any great Lord, among the West-Indians.

1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 177 The Cayan pepper or butter of the West-Indians.

1790 Short Journey in W. Indies II. 138 The real West Indian is the rarest inhabitant of the West Indies..yet..there are some who reside in this island.

1852 E. S. Dallas Poetics ii. iii. 71 The West Indians imagine that the Spaniards have indeed sprung from the foam of the sea.

1878 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 14 Sept. Thus much has been done to the loyal West Indians. Constrast this with what has been done for other peoples owing allegiance to her Majesty Queen Victoria.

1941 J. A. Williamson Ocean in Eng. Hist. ii. 50 Jamaica was successfully planted by large numbers of seasoned West Indians from Nevis and Barbados.

1960 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 50 68/1 No smoking pipes were used by the ancient West Indians.

1992 W. F. Keegan People who discovered Columbus i. 10 Effort was made to enslave all native West Indians.

b. A person of European origin or descent having property in the West Indies, or a member of the family of such a person. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of West Indies > [noun] > European

West Indian1661

Creole White1862

1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 100 The Major part of the Inhabitants being old West-Indians.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 80. ⁋3 Phillis one Day..smote the Heart of a gay West-Indian.

1764 S. Foote Patron i. 5 This is one of Lofty's companions, a West-Indian of an over-grown fortune.

1771 R. Cumberland (title) The West Indian.

1817 J. Austen Sanditon vi, in Minor Wks. (1954) 392 And I have heard that's very much the case with your West-injines.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. iii. 34 She had no notion how her maternal grandfather got the fortune inherited by his two daughters; but he had been a West Indian—which seemed to exclude further question.

1948 L. F. Horsfall in C. N. Parkinson Trade Winds viii. 159 The rich West Indians shared with the Nabobs from the East the position of nouveaux riches in English society.

1995 K. M. Butler Econ. Emancipation i. 9 The Marquis of Chandos..owned two Jamaican plantations..and further underscored the West Indians' involvement at Westminster.

2. A person of West Indian origin or descent living elsewhere, esp. someone identifying as belonging to a community or culture whose origins can be traced to the West Indies.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of West Indies > [noun]

West Indian1848

Afro-Caribbean1959

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of West Indies > [adjective]

Afro-Caribbean1901

West Indian1961

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lvi. 507 There was a large West Indian, whom nobody came to see, with a mahogany complexion, a woolly head, and an exceedingly dandified appearance.

1932 C. V. Kiser Sea Island to City i. 37 Some venders [in Harlem] are white, some black, but apparently the most successful are the light West Indians who pose as East Indians.

1957 Times 18 Feb. 4/7 Statistics show that more than 26,000 West Indians migrated to Britain during 1956.

1961 Ann. Reg. 1960 122 In his message to West Indians on Christmas Day the Prime Minister of the Federation, Sir Grantly Adams, spoke of West Indian unity.

1971 Observer 21 Feb. 5/1 The Scots West Indian... Born in Edinburgh, he has Jamaican blood from his father's side.

2003 R. Grosfoguel Colonial Subj. vi. 190 The welfare state helped to contain the impact of racism in British society toward West Indians.

3. plural. The members of a cricket team representing the West Indies.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > side > member of specific team

West Indians1886

flannels1901

1886 Manitoba Daily Free Press 18 Aug. The Montrealers concluded their first innings against the West Indians with a score of 110.

1928 Times 25 June 5/1 The out-cricket of the West Indians on Saturday indicates that the compliment, which has been paid to them, has not been prematurely offered.

1985 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 7 Jan. He played in the opening Test against the West Indians in Perth.

2006 Esquire Sept. 59/1 He routed the 1988 West Indians—Viv Richards and all.

B. adj.

1. Of, relating to, situated in, or connected with the West Indies; of, relating to, or characteristic of West Indians or their culture.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > West Indies > [adjective]

West Indy1587

West Indian1589

West India1622

Caribbee1627

Caribbean1658

1589 W. Biggs (title) A summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Araroye A round..ornament of feathers, worne by the West-Indian Sauages at their backes.

1667 Earl of Orrery Coll. State Lett. (1742) 239 The West-Indian fleet consists of an hundred and thirty five sail.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Rum,..a West-Indian Drink stronger than Brandy.

1754 H. Walpole Corr. 3 Nov. (1973) XXXV. 186 The West Indian war has thrown me into a new study.

1796 W. Dyott Diary (1907) I. 92 The dinner was quite West Indian, consisting principally of poultry.

a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1821) II. 458 Horses they sell at New-Haven and Hartford for the West-Indian market.

1835 J. W. D. Moodie Ten Years S. Afr. I. 20 Some cold rum-punch..made..in the West Indian fashion.

1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 16/1 The word is West Indian, and is applied there to a fast-sailing schooner.

1939 W. Hobson Amer. Jazz Music 53 Jazz rhythms have been partly affected by West Indian rhythms, such as the rhumba, beguine, etc.

1963 C. L. R. James Beyond Boundary xix. 246 She denounces West Indian food, the stews and the gravies and the sauces.

2002 C. Newland Snakeskin iii. 31 Like Sadie, and indeed like many West Indian immigrants, my mother mixed Jamaican patwa with London slang.

2. Designating animals and plants native to or originating in the West Indies. See also Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > balance of nature > distribution > [adjective] > plants or animals of a particular region > from specified region

EnglisheOE

Arabian1580

Scotch1610

West Indian1625

Scots1728

Creole1758

Californian1785

Nubian1790

Lusitanian1907

pantropical1913

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. x. 1780 Ouiedos [i.e. Oviedo's] West Indian Mangle is of the same like kind.

1679 T. Trapham Disc. Health Jamaica 38 Our Winter Bark or West Indian Cinnamon Tree.

1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 287 West Indian Green Parrot.

1815 E. J. Burrow Elements Conchol. 200 Voluta Musica, West Indian Music Shell.

1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 788 West-Indian-bark, Exostemma caribæum.

1946 Science 22 Feb. 219/1 The West Indian cherry..commonly called ‘acerola’ in Spanish.

2000 A. Alberts W. Indian Iguanas 87 Many natural predators such as raptors and the West Indian boas prey on rats.

3. Of or designating a multinational cricket team representing the West Indies. Cf. West Indies n. 2.

ΚΠ

1885 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Republican 14 Nov. 4/4 A West Indian cricket eleven is coming to Philadelphia next season.

1905 Times 25 Feb. 11/2 The West Indian batting broke down altogether, and it became almost a certainty that they would have to follow on quite early in the day.

1950 Times 20 May 7/3 He went on to pass G. Headley's 234, the previous highest West Indian score in England.

1976 N. S. Ramaswami Indian Cricket xv. 110 The first West Indian innings was a mighty 604 for six wickets declared.

2002 G. Armstrong Legends of Cricket 160/1 Of the first 14 centuries made by West Indian batsmen in Test cricket, Headley made 10 of them.

Compounds

West Indian cedar n. a tropical tree, Cedrela odorata (family Meliaceae), found in Central and South America; (also) the light-coloured fragrant timber of this tree, used for making furniture and musical instruments.

ΚΠ

1831 Trans. Soc. Arts, Manuf., & Commerce 48 457 The Cedar of Himalaya. Harder and less odorant than the West Indian cedar; an excellent light wood.

1891 Chemist & Druggist 8 Aug. 221/2 The West Indian cedar (Cedrela odorata, L) is sufficiently abundant to supply the market with any quantity that might be desired, its wood being extensively used for making cigar-boxes.

1902 J. Gifford Pract. Forestry viii. 197 The uses of wood are, in fact, manifold! The desk on which I write is walnut,..the cigar-box on my table is West Indian cedar, my eraser is of rubber.

2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees ii. 42 The British tend to feel that cedars are conifers of the genus Cedrus... But in America a whole range of lovely trees are called ‘cedar’... West Indian cedar is Cedrela, from the Meliaceae, another relative of mahogany.

West Indian honeysuckle n. †(a) any plant of the genus Desmodium, comprising clover-like plants typically having pink flowers (obsolete rare); cf. tick-trefoil n. at tick n.¹ Compounds 2; (b) Cape honeysuckle, Tecoma capensis (rare).Sense (a) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Desmodium, Tick-Trefoil, West Indian honeysuckle.

1902 Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 34 223 The West Indian honeysuckle came from the Cape.

West Indian locust n. (more fully West Indian locust tree) the courbaril, Hymenaea courbaril, a large resinous tree native to tropical America; (also) the hard timber of this tree.

ΚΠ

1841 United Service Jrnl. Apr. 563 The following papers were read:—1st. On the West Indian Locust Tree, or Cowbari. By Lieutenant-Colonel H. Capadose.

1920 Encycl. Americana XXVII. 89 The West Indian locust is the English name for a wood produced by Hymenæa courbaril... The wood is red with dark streaks.

1961 Econ. Bot. 15 228/2 The widely distributed West Indian Locust (Hymenaea courbaril L.)..furnishes a resin-like gum, known in the trade as South American copal.

2002 Sci. News 30 Mar. 202/2 Scientists believe the resin that eventually became Dominican amber came from Hymenaea protera, a tree closely related to today's West Indian locust tree.

West Indian mahogany n. a mahogany, Swietenia mahogani, of the southern United States and the Caribbean; (also) the valuable, hard, dark-coloured timber of this tree; cf. mahogany n. 1.

ΚΠ

1869 D. Oliver Indian Bot. ii. iii. 187 Several valuable timber-trees belong to this Family [sc. Meliaceae]; amongst the rest,..the American and West Indian Mahogany and Cedar (Swietenia and Cedrela).

1902 Indian Forester 28 35 The timber takes the same place here that the West Indian mahogany does in Europe; our cedar being, however, much lighter in weight.

1941 Science 22 Aug. 11/1 West Indian mahogany trees grow fairly rapidly under Florida conditions. Two-year-old saplings planted..in 1935 were 40 feet high in 1940.

2006 J. Valentine & D. B. Means Florida Magnificent Wilderness 80 The West Indian mahogany (Swietenia mahogani) is rare because its wood is very valuable and thieves sneak into parts at night to poach the trees.

West Indian manatee n. a large manatee, Trichechus manatus, found in coastal waters and adjacent rivers in the Caribbean and West Atlantic from Georgia to Brazil; also called American manatee, southern manatee.This species comprises the Antillean manatee and the Florida manatee, often regarded as subspecies.

ΚΠ

1864 Nat. Hist. Rev. 4 263 A careful examination of the neck-vertebræ of a fine skeleton of a West Indian Manatee (Manatus americanus).

1894 Amer. Naturalist 28 523 West Indian Manatee, Trichechus manatus Linnæus... Trichechus is only applicable to the Manatee.

1968 Chesapeake Sci. 9 64/1 I have never seen any data showing that the Florida manatee and the West Indian manatee are subspecifically distinct.

2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures I. 326/1 Van Battenberg's animals are almost certainly the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus ), often seen at the mouths of Guyanese rivers.

West Indian marigold n. rare any of several tropical American plants of the genus Wedelia (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), with flowers that resemble those of the marigold.

ΚΠ

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 723/1 Marigold... West Indian. Wedelia carnosa.

2004 D. F. Austin Florida Ethnobot. 147/1 By 1866, two West Indian composites had been called ox-eyes—the creeping ox-eye or West Indian marigold (Wedelia), and the seaside ox-eye (Borrichia).

West Indian seal n. (more fully West Indian monk seal) a large monk seal, Monachus tropicalis, formerly found in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.Believed to have become extinct in the early 1950s.

ΚΠ

1877 Amer. Naturalist 11 142 (note) A very imperfectly known West Indian seal is found occasionally in numbers on the Dog Rocks.

1913 W. T. Hornaday Our Vanishing Wild Life i. iv. 39 (caption) West Indian Seal in the New York Aquarium.

1951 Jrnl. Mammalogy 32 210 The West Indian monk seal has entirely disappeared from United States waters.

2004 Mammalian Species No. 747. 6/1 Monachus tropicalis is also known as the West Indian seal, Caribbean monk seal, and Caribbean seal.

Derivatives

ˌWest ˈIndianness n. West Indian quality or character.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of West Indies > [noun] > quality or character

West Indianness1953

1953 Caribbean Q. 3 iii. 181 We are..still trying to discover what..makes us characteristically West Indian, or if you like, what is the essence of our West Indianness.

1972 K. Ramchand & C. Gray West Indian Poetry 89 The West Indian poet's confidence about his West Indian-ness.

2001 V. F. B. Bobb & A. Y. Clarke in N. Foner Islands in City iii. viii. 233 They [sc. the second generation] have difficulty marshaling their West Indianness in a society that racializes black people with little regard to ethnicity.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	west indian
释义	West Indiann.adj. Brit. /ˌwɛst ˈɪndɪən/, U.S. /ˌwɛst ˈɪndiən/ Forms: see west adv., adj., n.¹, and prep. and Indian adj. and n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: west adj., Indian n. Etymology: < west adj. + Indian n., after West India as a geographical term (see West India n.). Compare East Indian n., East Indian adj. A. n. 1. a. A native or inhabitant of the West Indies.Originally referring to the parts of North America discovered by early navigators and subsequently restricted to the islands of the Caribbean; used first of the indigenous population, and subsequently both of settlers of European origin and of people of African origin brought to the area as slaves. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of West Indies > [noun] > original West Indian1555 1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 310^v The west Indians which are all togyther in general eyther purple, or tawny lyke vnto sodde quynses, or of the coloure of chestnuttes or olyues. 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft iii. xv. 64 The West Indians..doo the like. 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xiii. 177 Those [cruelties] that were practised by the Spanish nation vpon the West Indians. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words at Weroance A name given to any great Lord, among the West-Indians. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 177 The Cayan pepper or butter of the West-Indians. 1790 Short Journey in W. Indies II. 138 The real West Indian is the rarest inhabitant of the West Indies..yet..there are some who reside in this island. 1852 E. S. Dallas Poetics ii. iii. 71 The West Indians imagine that the Spaniards have indeed sprung from the foam of the sea. 1878 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 14 Sept. Thus much has been done to the loyal West Indians. Constrast this with what has been done for other peoples owing allegiance to her Majesty Queen Victoria. 1941 J. A. Williamson Ocean in Eng. Hist. ii. 50 Jamaica was successfully planted by large numbers of seasoned West Indians from Nevis and Barbados. 1960 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 50 68/1 No smoking pipes were used by the ancient West Indians. 1992 W. F. Keegan People who discovered Columbus i. 10 Effort was made to enslave all native West Indians. b. A person of European origin or descent having property in the West Indies, or a member of the family of such a person. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of West Indies > [noun] > European West Indian1661 Creole White1862 1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 100 The Major part of the Inhabitants being old West-Indians. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 80. ⁋3 Phillis one Day..smote the Heart of a gay West-Indian. 1764 S. Foote Patron i. 5 This is one of Lofty's companions, a West-Indian of an over-grown fortune. 1771 R. Cumberland (title) The West Indian. 1817 J. Austen Sanditon vi, in Minor Wks. (1954) 392 And I have heard that's very much the case with your West-injines. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. iii. 34 She had no notion how her maternal grandfather got the fortune inherited by his two daughters; but he had been a West Indian—which seemed to exclude further question. 1948 L. F. Horsfall in C. N. Parkinson Trade Winds viii. 159 The rich West Indians shared with the Nabobs from the East the position of nouveaux riches in English society. 1995 K. M. Butler Econ. Emancipation i. 9 The Marquis of Chandos..owned two Jamaican plantations..and further underscored the West Indians' involvement at Westminster. 2. A person of West Indian origin or descent living elsewhere, esp. someone identifying as belonging to a community or culture whose origins can be traced to the West Indies. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of West Indies > [noun] West Indian1848 Afro-Caribbean1959 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of West Indies > [adjective] Afro-Caribbean1901 West Indian1961 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lvi. 507 There was a large West Indian, whom nobody came to see, with a mahogany complexion, a woolly head, and an exceedingly dandified appearance. 1932 C. V. Kiser Sea Island to City i. 37 Some venders [in Harlem] are white, some black, but apparently the most successful are the light West Indians who pose as East Indians. 1957 Times 18 Feb. 4/7 Statistics show that more than 26,000 West Indians migrated to Britain during 1956. 1961 Ann. Reg. 1960 122 In his message to West Indians on Christmas Day the Prime Minister of the Federation, Sir Grantly Adams, spoke of West Indian unity. 1971 Observer 21 Feb. 5/1 The Scots West Indian... Born in Edinburgh, he has Jamaican blood from his father's side. 2003 R. Grosfoguel Colonial Subj. vi. 190 The welfare state helped to contain the impact of racism in British society toward West Indians. 3. plural. The members of a cricket team representing the West Indies. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > side > member of specific team West Indians1886 flannels1901 1886 Manitoba Daily Free Press 18 Aug. The Montrealers concluded their first innings against the West Indians with a score of 110. 1928 Times 25 June 5/1 The out-cricket of the West Indians on Saturday indicates that the compliment, which has been paid to them, has not been prematurely offered. 1985 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 7 Jan. He played in the opening Test against the West Indians in Perth. 2006 Esquire Sept. 59/1 He routed the 1988 West Indians—Viv Richards and all. B. adj. 1. Of, relating to, situated in, or connected with the West Indies; of, relating to, or characteristic of West Indians or their culture. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > West Indies > [adjective] West Indy1587 West Indian1589 West India1622 Caribbee1627 Caribbean1658 1589 W. Biggs (title) A summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Araroye A round..ornament of feathers, worne by the West-Indian Sauages at their backes. 1667 Earl of Orrery Coll. State Lett. (1742) 239 The West-Indian fleet consists of an hundred and thirty five sail. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Rum,..a West-Indian Drink stronger than Brandy. 1754 H. Walpole Corr. 3 Nov. (1973) XXXV. 186 The West Indian war has thrown me into a new study. 1796 W. Dyott Diary (1907) I. 92 The dinner was quite West Indian, consisting principally of poultry. a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1821) II. 458 Horses they sell at New-Haven and Hartford for the West-Indian market. 1835 J. W. D. Moodie Ten Years S. Afr. I. 20 Some cold rum-punch..made..in the West Indian fashion. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 16/1 The word is West Indian, and is applied there to a fast-sailing schooner. 1939 W. Hobson Amer. Jazz Music 53 Jazz rhythms have been partly affected by West Indian rhythms, such as the rhumba, beguine, etc. 1963 C. L. R. James Beyond Boundary xix. 246 She denounces West Indian food, the stews and the gravies and the sauces. 2002 C. Newland Snakeskin iii. 31 Like Sadie, and indeed like many West Indian immigrants, my mother mixed Jamaican patwa with London slang. 2. Designating animals and plants native to or originating in the West Indies. See also Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > balance of nature > distribution > [adjective] > plants or animals of a particular region > from specified region EnglisheOE Arabian1580 Scotch1610 West Indian1625 Scots1728 Creole1758 Californian1785 Nubian1790 Lusitanian1907 pantropical1913 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. x. 1780 Ouiedos [i.e. Oviedo's] West Indian Mangle is of the same like kind. 1679 T. Trapham Disc. Health Jamaica 38 Our Winter Bark or West Indian Cinnamon Tree. 1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 287 West Indian Green Parrot. 1815 E. J. Burrow Elements Conchol. 200 Voluta Musica, West Indian Music Shell. 1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 788 West-Indian-bark, Exostemma caribæum. 1946 Science 22 Feb. 219/1 The West Indian cherry..commonly called ‘acerola’ in Spanish. 2000 A. Alberts W. Indian Iguanas 87 Many natural predators such as raptors and the West Indian boas prey on rats. 3. Of or designating a multinational cricket team representing the West Indies. Cf. West Indies n. 2. ΚΠ 1885 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Republican 14 Nov. 4/4 A West Indian cricket eleven is coming to Philadelphia next season. 1905 Times 25 Feb. 11/2 The West Indian batting broke down altogether, and it became almost a certainty that they would have to follow on quite early in the day. 1950 Times 20 May 7/3 He went on to pass G. Headley's 234, the previous highest West Indian score in England. 1976 N. S. Ramaswami Indian Cricket xv. 110 The first West Indian innings was a mighty 604 for six wickets declared. 2002 G. Armstrong Legends of Cricket 160/1 Of the first 14 centuries made by West Indian batsmen in Test cricket, Headley made 10 of them. Compounds West Indian cedar n. a tropical tree, Cedrela odorata (family Meliaceae), found in Central and South America; (also) the light-coloured fragrant timber of this tree, used for making furniture and musical instruments. ΚΠ 1831 Trans. Soc. Arts, Manuf., & Commerce 48 457 The Cedar of Himalaya. Harder and less odorant than the West Indian cedar; an excellent light wood. 1891 Chemist & Druggist 8 Aug. 221/2 The West Indian cedar (Cedrela odorata, L) is sufficiently abundant to supply the market with any quantity that might be desired, its wood being extensively used for making cigar-boxes. 1902 J. Gifford Pract. Forestry viii. 197 The uses of wood are, in fact, manifold! The desk on which I write is walnut,..the cigar-box on my table is West Indian cedar, my eraser is of rubber. 2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees ii. 42 The British tend to feel that cedars are conifers of the genus Cedrus... But in America a whole range of lovely trees are called ‘cedar’... West Indian cedar is Cedrela, from the Meliaceae, another relative of mahogany. West Indian honeysuckle n. †(a) any plant of the genus Desmodium, comprising clover-like plants typically having pink flowers (obsolete rare); cf. tick-trefoil n. at tick n.¹ Compounds 2; (b) Cape honeysuckle, Tecoma capensis (rare).Sense (a) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Desmodium, Tick-Trefoil, West Indian honeysuckle. 1902 Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 34 223 The West Indian honeysuckle came from the Cape. West Indian locust n. (more fully West Indian locust tree) the courbaril, Hymenaea courbaril, a large resinous tree native to tropical America; (also) the hard timber of this tree. ΚΠ 1841 United Service Jrnl. Apr. 563 The following papers were read:—1st. On the West Indian Locust Tree, or Cowbari. By Lieutenant-Colonel H. Capadose. 1920 Encycl. Americana XXVII. 89 The West Indian locust is the English name for a wood produced by Hymenæa courbaril... The wood is red with dark streaks. 1961 Econ. Bot. 15 228/2 The widely distributed West Indian Locust (Hymenaea courbaril L.)..furnishes a resin-like gum, known in the trade as South American copal. 2002 Sci. News 30 Mar. 202/2 Scientists believe the resin that eventually became Dominican amber came from Hymenaea protera, a tree closely related to today's West Indian locust tree. West Indian mahogany n. a mahogany, Swietenia mahogani, of the southern United States and the Caribbean; (also) the valuable, hard, dark-coloured timber of this tree; cf. mahogany n. 1. ΚΠ 1869 D. Oliver Indian Bot. ii. iii. 187 Several valuable timber-trees belong to this Family [sc. Meliaceae]; amongst the rest,..the American and West Indian Mahogany and Cedar (Swietenia and Cedrela). 1902 Indian Forester 28 35 The timber takes the same place here that the West Indian mahogany does in Europe; our cedar being, however, much lighter in weight. 1941 Science 22 Aug. 11/1 West Indian mahogany trees grow fairly rapidly under Florida conditions. Two-year-old saplings planted..in 1935 were 40 feet high in 1940. 2006 J. Valentine & D. B. Means Florida Magnificent Wilderness 80 The West Indian mahogany (Swietenia mahogani) is rare because its wood is very valuable and thieves sneak into parts at night to poach the trees. West Indian manatee n. a large manatee, Trichechus manatus, found in coastal waters and adjacent rivers in the Caribbean and West Atlantic from Georgia to Brazil; also called American manatee, southern manatee.This species comprises the Antillean manatee and the Florida manatee, often regarded as subspecies. ΚΠ 1864 Nat. Hist. Rev. 4 263 A careful examination of the neck-vertebræ of a fine skeleton of a West Indian Manatee (Manatus americanus). 1894 Amer. Naturalist 28 523 West Indian Manatee, Trichechus manatus Linnæus... Trichechus is only applicable to the Manatee. 1968 Chesapeake Sci. 9 64/1 I have never seen any data showing that the Florida manatee and the West Indian manatee are subspecifically distinct. 2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures I. 326/1 Van Battenberg's animals are almost certainly the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus ), often seen at the mouths of Guyanese rivers. West Indian marigold n. rare any of several tropical American plants of the genus Wedelia (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), with flowers that resemble those of the marigold. ΚΠ 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 723/1 Marigold... West Indian. Wedelia carnosa. 2004 D. F. Austin Florida Ethnobot. 147/1 By 1866, two West Indian composites had been called ox-eyes—the creeping ox-eye or West Indian marigold (Wedelia), and the seaside ox-eye (Borrichia). West Indian seal n. (more fully West Indian monk seal) a large monk seal, Monachus tropicalis, formerly found in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.Believed to have become extinct in the early 1950s. ΚΠ 1877 Amer. Naturalist 11 142 (note) A very imperfectly known West Indian seal is found occasionally in numbers on the Dog Rocks. 1913 W. T. Hornaday Our Vanishing Wild Life i. iv. 39 (caption) West Indian Seal in the New York Aquarium. 1951 Jrnl. Mammalogy 32 210 The West Indian monk seal has entirely disappeared from United States waters. 2004 Mammalian Species No. 747. 6/1 Monachus tropicalis is also known as the West Indian seal, Caribbean monk seal, and Caribbean seal. Derivatives ˌWest ˈIndianness n. West Indian quality or character. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of West Indies > [noun] > quality or character West Indianness1953 1953 Caribbean Q. 3 iii. 181 We are..still trying to discover what..makes us characteristically West Indian, or if you like, what is the essence of our West Indianness. 1972 K. Ramchand & C. Gray West Indian Poetry 89 The West Indian poet's confidence about his West Indian-ness. 2001 V. F. B. Bobb & A. Y. Clarke in N. Foner Islands in City iii. viii. 233 They [sc. the second generation] have difficulty marshaling their West Indianness in a society that racializes black people with little regard to ethnicity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1555
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