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1. accouri, n. View full entry 1824
...An agouti (genus Dasyprocta) or related animal....
2. achiote, n. View full entry 1648
...A tropical American shrub, Bixa orellana (family Bixaceae), bearing bright red fruit containing red seeds from which a dye is obtained (see sense 2)....
3. matchcoat, n. View full entry 1612
...A kind of coat formerly worn by North American Indians, originally made of furs, later of coarse woollen cloth (as supplied by white traders)....
4. meetsuk, n. View full entry 1896
...A meal; mealtime....
5. menhaden, n. View full entry 1792
...Any of several deep-bodied herring-like fishes of the genus Brevoortia (family Clupeidae), esp. B. tyrannus, which are found on the Atlantic coast of North America and...
6. menomin, n. View full entry 1791
...A name originally used by Ojibwa Indians and also occas. more widely (esp. in Canada) for: wild rice, Zizania aquatica, or its seeds....
7. Menominee, n. and adj. View full entry 1722
...A member of a semi-sedentary North American people residing, at the time of first European contact, in summer villages in northern Wisconsin and Michigan and subsisting by hunting, gathering, and gardening....
8. methy, n. View full entry 1705
...The burbot, Lota lota....
9. moccasin, n. View full entry 1612
...A kind of soft-soled leather shoe originally worn by North American Indians, later also by trappers, backwoodsmen, etc....
10. Mohawk, n. and adj. View full entry 1634
...A member of a North American Indian people, one of the original five of the Iroquois Confederacy, inhabiting parts of southern Ontario and northern New York State....
11. moonack, n. View full entry 1666
...The woodchuck, Marmota monax....
12. moose, n.2 View full entry 1614
...The elk, Alces alces....
13. muckamuck, n.1 View full entry 1852
...In north-western North America: food....
14. muckamuck, v. View full entry 1853
...intr. In north-western North America: to eat....
15. mungofa, n. View full entry 1789
...The gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus....
16. Muskogee, n. and adj. View full entry 1751
...A member of a North American Indian people also called Creek....
17. musquash, n. (and adj.) View full entry 1616
...= muskrat1a....
18. Nanaimo, n. and adj. View full entry 1827
...A member of a confederation of North American Indian peoples inhabiting, at the time of first contact with Europeans, the area of Vancouver Island around present-day Nanaimo. Now hist....
19. Narragansett, adj. and n. View full entry 1622
...Of, relating to, or designating an Algonquian people of Rhode Island or their language....
20. Nuxalk, n. and adj. View full entry 1910
...A member of a North American Indian people of the central British Columbia coast, Canada; = Bella Coola1....
