NATIVE HAWAIIAN

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• NATIVE HAWAIIAN (noun)
  The noun NATIVE HAWAIIAN has 1 sense:

1. a member or descendant of the indigenous Polynesian people who lived in the Hawaiian Islands

  Familiarity information: NATIVE HAWAIIAN used as a noun is very rare.

• NATIVE HAWAIIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member or descendant of the indigenous Polynesian people who lived in the Hawaiian Islands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Native Hawaiian" is a kind of...):

Hawaiian (a native or resident of Hawaii)

 Context examples 

The term covers particularly people who identify themselves as part-Hawaiian, Native Hawaiian, Guamanian or Chamorro, Carolinian, Samoan, Chuu.

(Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Food and Drug Administration/CDISC)

Noncommercial fishing, such as recreational fishing and the removal of fish and other resources for Native Hawaiian cultural practices, is allowed in the expansion area by permit, as is scientific research.

(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)

For example, a strong association was found between a new genomic variant and smokers and their daily cigarette usage in Native Hawaiian participants.

(Study of multiethnic genomes identifies 27 genetic variants associated with disease, National Institutes of Health)

It plays a significant role in Native Hawaiian creation and settlement stories, and is used to practice important activities like traditional long-distance voyaging and wayfinding.

(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)

The team collected data from 49,839 African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native Hawaiian, Native American and people who identified as others and were not defined by those ethnic groups.

(Study of multiethnic genomes identifies 27 genetic variants associated with disease, National Institutes of Health)

The expanded area, including the archipelago and its adjacent waters, is considered a sacred place for the Native Hawaiian community.

(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)

Apart from finding new genomic variants, the study assessed whether known disease associations with 8,979 established genomic variants and specific diseases in European ancestry populations could be detected in African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Native American populations.

(Study of multiethnic genomes identifies 27 genetic variants associated with disease, National Institutes of Health)