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The southern part of what is now called Papua New Guinea, formerly administered as a separate territory to New Guinea. examples
A province of Indonesia. examples
plural Papuas or Papua
(dated) A person indigenous to Papua. quotations examples
The Papuas are so termed in the Malay language, from their extreme darkness, approaching to black.
1841, The Colonial Magazine and Commercial-Maritime Journal, page 447
The Papua are more numerous in the Philippine Islands than anywhere else, with the exception of New Guinea.
1856, The Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, page 502