tonga

Plural: tongas

Noun

• a monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1970
• the language of the Tongan people of south central Africa (Zambia and Rhodesia)
• A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
• A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.

Synonyms

Friendly Islands, Kingdom of Tonga

Related Words

tonga bean