Sumatra
/suːˈmɑːtɹə/ noun C2- A squall or violent rainstorm coming from the south.
- A chicken of a breed native to the island of Sumatra, formerly used in cock-fighting and now mainly kept for exhibition.
Plural Sumatras
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"It was a ship which is associated with the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared.
The whole question of the Netherland-Sumatra Company and of the colossal schemes of Baron Maupertuis are too recent in the minds of the public, and are too intimately concerned with politics and finance to be fitting subjects for this series of sketches.
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