tonga

3 definitions found

tonga - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Tonga \Ton"ga\, n. (Med.)
     A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant
     supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.
     [1913 Webster]

  Tonga \Ton"ga\, n. [Hind. t[=a]ng[=a], Skr. tama[.n]gaka.]
     A kind of light two-wheeled vehicle, usually for four
     persons, drawn by ponies or bullocks. [India]
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

tonga - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Tonga
      n 1: a monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South
           Pacific; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in
           1970 [syn: Tonga, Kingdom of Tonga, Friendly Islands]
      2: the language of the Tongan people of south central Africa
         (Zambia and Rhodesia)