Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
madagascan is a noun and adjective meaning "a native or inhabitant of Madagascar". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a native or inhabitant of Madagascar
of or relating to Madagascar or its people
“Madagascan pepper”
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for madagascan come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.