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1. Absaroka, n. View full entry 1812
...= Crow1....
2. accouri, n. View full entry 1824
...An agouti (genus Dasyprocta) or related animal....
3. Animikie, n. View full entry 1873
...A series of rocks of the Canadian Shield of early Proterozoic age, rich in iron ore; the period of time during which these were deposited. Usu. attrib....
4. Arapaima, n. View full entry 1840
...A genus of fishes of the family Osteoglossidæ, remarkable for their size; (with lower-case initial) a fish of this genus....
5. Arracacha, n. View full entry 1823
...A genus of umbelliferous plants, with tuberous roots, found in the north of South America, of which one species (A. esculenta) is a staple article of food with the inhabitants....
6. Athapascan | Athapaskan, adj. and n. View full entry 1846
...Of or relating to a widely spread people of North American Indians or their language....
7. atlatl, n. View full entry 1871
...A throwing-stick used by North American Indians and Inuits....
8. Bella Coola, n. View full entry 1834
...A member of a grouping of four North American Indian peoples of the central British Columbia coast, Canada, having a common culture and language and now consolidated at the mouth of the...
9. benab, n. View full entry 1867
...In Guyana, a shelter made of a framework of poles, covered with branches and leaves....
10. Beothuk, n. and adj. View full entry 1828
...(A member of) an Indian people of Newfoundland, said to be extinct by 1827....
11. bixa, n. View full entry 1879
...A genus of small trees, natives of tropical America, from the fruits of one species of which (B. orellana) the dye anatta is prepared....
12. caatinga, n. View full entry 1846
...In Brazil, a forest consisting of thorny shrubs and stunted trees....
13. Caboclo, n. View full entry 1816
...In Brazil: a westernized Amerindian; (also) a person of mixed Indian and black or Indian and white parentage....
14. calisaya, n. View full entry 1837
...the most valuable sort of Peruvian bark, obtained from Cinchona calisaya....
15. carpincho, n. View full entry 1839
...A local name in South America for the capybara....
16. carrancha, n. View full entry 1839
...A South American caracara or carrion-hawk, Polyborus tharus....
17. cassareep, n. View full entry 1832
...‘The inspissated juice of the cassava, which is highly antiseptic, and forms the basis of the West Indian pepper-pot’ (Treasury Bot.)....
18. cawquaw, n. View full entry 1840
...The Urson or Canadian Porcupine Erethizon dorsatum, whose spines are used by the Indians as ornaments....
19. cayuse, n. View full entry 1841
...‘A common Indian pony’ (Scribner's Mag. II. 510). Also, any horse (N. Amer.colloq.)....
20. chalchuite, n. View full entry 1843
...A green variety of turquoise from Mexico....
