# Indo-Asian
## English
### Alternative forms

* Indoasian

### Etymology

From Indo-Asia +‎ -an.

### Pronunciation

    Rhymes: -eɪʃən, -eɪʒən

### Adjective

Indo-Asian (comparative more Indo-Asian, superlative most Indo-Asian)
* Of or pertaining to Indo-Asia.
** 2010, Jaynal Uddin Ahmed, Development Vision of North-East India, →ISBN, page 35:The Indo-Asian car really has revived the speculation on vast possibilities of reaping benefits from trade and tourism that could take place between NER and South-East Asian nations.
** 2012, Issues in General Science and Scientific Theory and Method, →ISBN:Asian frogs of the tribe Paini (Anura: Dicroglossidae) range across several first-order tectono-morphological domains of the Cenozoic Indo-Asian collision that include the Tibetan Plateau, the Himalayas, and Indochina.
** 2014, Tina & Mark McCrorey, Perfect Blend: Irish-Indian-American Fusion Cooking, →ISBN:This is another one of those unexpected Indo-Asian dishes that keeps things interesting.
** 2015, Jonah Blank, Jennifer D. P. Moroney, Angel Rabasa, Look East, Cross Black Waters: India's Interest in Southeast Asia, →ISBN:One certainly finds far more nostalgia for Nehruvian Indo-Asian unity in Delhi than in any of the capitals of Southeast Asia.
* Having mixed Indian and Asian ancestry.
** 2006, Diana Preston, Before the Fall-Out: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima, →ISBN, page 490:The diplomat summed up, 'as far as I could make it out, the line of the President's thought is that an Indo-Asian or Eurasian or (better) Eurindasian race could be developed which could be good and produce a good civilisation and Far East order to the exclusion of the Japanese, languishing in Coventry within their original islands'.
** 2010, Amanda J. Hanson, Richard J. Witry, Skokie, →ISBN:Over the last 30 years, the makeup of Skokie's population has become more ethnically diverse as new families have moved into the area. Many of these families have Indo-Asian origins.
** 2014, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Mummies of the Motorway & Scarborough Fair: Short Stories, →ISBN:At that point, Cindy had a little coughing fit, and one of the female grad students, a girl who looked Indo-Asian, stood a bit straighter and got a weird look in her eye.
** 2015, Onaly A. Kapasi, Kashmir on fire, →ISBN:The gentleman, who identified himself as Mohamed, was of Muslim heritage; his skin had a very dark hue, and the nose and his facial structure were that of an Indo-Asian heritage.

### Noun

Indo-Asian (plural Indo-Asians)
* A person native to the Indo-Asian continent or of mixed Indian and Asian ancestry.
** 2007, Alun H Davies, Christopher P Gibbons, Vascular Access Simplified, →ISBN:This is typically the case in West London in vegetarian Indo-Asians with chronic renal impairment.
** 2010, Sarah Jarvis, Alan L. Rubin, Diabetes for Dummies, →ISBN:That's because obesity-related complications are much more common, and start at a lower BMI, in some ethnic groups. The World Health Organisation defines obesity in Indo-Asians, for instance, at BMI over 27.
** 2015, Jamie Sawyer, The Lazarus War: Redemption: A Lazarus War Novella, →ISBN:His wife was Lucina Singh, a Third Gen Indo-Asian with a hugely bad attitude, who acted as the ship's navigator.
** 2016, Nikolaos Papageorgiou, Cardiovascular Diseases, →ISBN:In contrast the prevalence rate was lower amongst in Indo-Asians, at 0.6% [78].