Indoasian

English

Adjective

Indoasian (comparative more Indoasian, superlative most Indoasian)

1. Alternative form of Indo-Asian
   1. Of or pertaining to Indoasia.
      • 1926, American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, Journal - Volumes 6-7, page 22:

        Stocks of Indoasian rice are still large; there is a considerable holdover.

      • 1952, Chemical Microscopy: Laboratory Outline, page 1:

        Chinese and Indoasian miniatures and precious stones are of such delicacy that the Chinese of antiquity must have worn spectacles and must have been versed in the science of optics before our Western World.

      • 1974, Stadler Genetics Symposia - Volumes 6-9, page 83:

        Indoasian cultures have produced numerous aphrodisiacs for aging males.

   2. Having mixed Indian and Asian ancestry.
      • 2007, Christina Elizabeth Firpo, "The durability of the empire": race, empire and "abandoned" children in colonial Vietnam 1870-1956, page 4:

        In 1947, the French military joined the colonial government's search for abandoned Eurasian children, this time seeking out Afroasian and Indoasian children as well.

      • 2014, R Charif, J Galliford, D Game, A McLean, “Management of the Acute Transplant”, in Practical Nephrology:

        TB prophylaxis should be considered and usually instituted in patients with previous history of TB and in patients deemed at high risk of developing TB post-transplant such as those of Indoasian ethnic origin.

      • 2017, Giuseppe A. Ramirez, Cornelia Weyand, Augusto Vaglio, Vascular Inflammation in Systemic Autoimmunity, →ISBN, page 18:

        Recently, in an Indoasian family, three members of the same family with GPA who share the allele HLADPB1*04:01 were described, furthermore demonstrating the HLA locus is involved in AAV genesis (18).

Noun

Indoasian (plural Indoasians)

1. Alternative form of Indo-Asian
   • 1963, Antara, page 25:

     A belated report from Antara 's correspondent in Samarinda has confirmed that a proa (small boat) with several dozen Indoasians on board was shot to splinters by a British patrol boat early in April.

   • 1999 August 14, Chas, “Dim Mak versus”, in rec.martial-arts (Usenet):

     The 'platerans', Chinese/Indonesian indoasians, were sometimes able to study two family systems, but it was not common for them to teach others until fairly recently- most kuntao was taught and practiced by ethnic Chinese.

   • 1984, Boniface Bolognani, A courageous people from the Dolomites: the immigrants from Trentino to U.S.A. trails:

     The presence of 97 million Japanese, 100 million Indoasians and 900 million Chinese forced the 12 million Australians to accept social reality.

   • 2008, Vappu Tyyskä, Youth and Society: The Long and Winding Road, →ISBN, page 83:

     In a recent analysis of the 1996 Census in relation to Toronto, Ornstein (2000, p. 51) notes that groups with low chances of dropping out include Caribbeans and Indoasians, the Japanese, koreans, West asians, Europeans, Germans, ukrainians, and Jews.

   • 2017, Robert Gifford, Sisira Siribaddana, Shareen Forbes, Michael Eddleston, Endocrine disrupting chemicals and the diabetes epidemic in the WHO South East Asia region:

     Compared with other world regions, Indoasians are at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes at a lower body mass index, develop it at a younger age, and undergo a more aggressive progression to macrovascular and microvascular complications.