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1. Anasazi, n. and adj. View full entry 1936
...Archaeol. A member of the Basket Maker people, or of their successors the early Pueblo people, of the uplands of northern Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and Colorado, together considered as...
2. anatta | anatto, n. View full entry 1667
...An orange-red dye, procured in Central America from the waxy pulp surrounding the seeds of the Bixa orellana; used in dyeing, and for colouring cheese....
3. crab, n.3 View full entry 1769
...Corruption of carap, the name of a South American tree, Carapa guianensis, used in compounds: as crab-nutcrab-oilalso carap oilcrab-tree, crab-wood...
4. Divi-divi, n. View full entry 1843
...The commercial name of the curled pods of Cæsalpinia coriaria, a tree found in tropical America and the West Indies; they were introduced to Europe from Caracas in 1768...
5. hiaqua, n. View full entry 1824
...An ornament or necklace composed of tooth-shells, formerly used as money by the Indians of the north Pacific coast of North America....
6. istle, n. View full entry 1883
...A valuable fibre obtained (in Mexico and Central America) from Bromelia sylvestris and species of Agave, as A. ixtli, and used for cordage, nets, carpets, etc....
7. jacaranda, n. View full entry 1753
...Name given to various trees of tropical America yielding fragrant and ornamental wood (called, in common with various other timbers, rosewood); esp. to those of the genus Jacaranda...
8. 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...A kind of coat formerly worn by North American Indians, originally made of furs, later of coarse woollen cloth (as supplied by white traders)....
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. mocock, n. View full entry 1791
...A birchbark basket or similar container of a type originally made by North American Indians....
11. mocotaugan, n. View full entry 1716
...A knife used for woodworking, chiefly by the Cree peoples of northern Canada, characteristically having a short blade that curves upwards at the end. Now more commonly called crooked knife....
12. 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....
13. moose, n.2 View full entry 1614
...The elk, Alces alces....
14. musquash, n. (and adj.) View full entry 1616
...= muskrat1a....
15. peccary, n. View full entry 1667
...Any of several dark-furred gregarious piglike mammals constituting the artiodactyl family Tayassuidae, which inhabit forest and forest scrub from the south-western United States to Paraguay. Also: the skin of such...
16. pegall, n. View full entry 1796
...In Guyana and the Caribbean: a basketwork container, esp. a small rectangular basket with a close-fitting cover....
17. persimmon, n. and adj. View full entry 1612
...The edible plumlike fruit of the North American tree Diospyros virginiana (the persimmon tree: see sense A. 2a), a large yellow or orange berry which is usually very...
18. puccoon, n. View full entry 1609
...Any of several plants of eastern North America whose roots were used by North American Indians as a source of dyes; esp. Lithospermum canescens (family Boraginaceae) and bloodroot,...
19. raccoon, n. View full entry 1608
...The dressed skin of the raccoon (see sense 2); (occas.) a single dressed raccoon skin....
20. saouari | souari, n. View full entry 1806
...saouari nut, the ‘butter-nut’ of Caryocar nuciferum and C. tomentosum, lofty trees of Guyana. saouari wood, the hard durable timber of these trees, used for...
