Dyak
[daiæk]
Definition
n. the Malay name for the race who constitute the bulk of the aboriginal population of Borneo divided into innumerable tribes differing pretty widely in language customs and degrees of savageness.—Also Day′ak.
Typist: Maxine
Examples
- So close was this resemblance, that a native Dyak maintained that the foliaceous excrescences were really moss. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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