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1. atamasco lily, n. View full entry 1743
...A plant, Zephyranthes atamasco, of the south-eastern U.S., bearing a single lily-like flower....
2. Cherokee, n. and adj. View full entry 1674
...(A member of) an Iroquoian North American Indian people formerly inhabiting a large portion of the southern United States....
3. Chickasaw, n. View full entry 1674
...A member of a Muskogean North American Indian people formerly resident in Mississippi and in Alabama, but subsequently in Oklahoma....
4. chinampa, n. View full entry 1832
...The native name of the floating-gardens formerly used on the lakes of Mexico, consisting of a wooden raft covered with earth....
5. Hohokam, n. and adj. View full entry 1884
...An extinct people of North American Indians....
6. hule, n. View full entry 1846
...A Central American tree of the genus Castilloa (formerly Castilla), or the crude rubber obtained from it....
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. 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....
9. Shasta, adj. and n. View full entry 1843
...Designating an American Indian people living in the highlands of northern California or the language of the Hokan group spoken by this people....
10. tomahawk, n. View full entry 1634
...The axe of the North American Indians, used as a weapon of war and the chase, and also as a tool and agricultural implement; in English use the word is usually applied...
11. tule, n. View full entry 1837
...Either of two species of bulrush (Scirpus lacustrisvar.occidentalis, and S. Tatora) abundant in low lands along riversides in California; hence, a thicket of this, or a...
12. wigwam, n. View full entry 1624
...A lodge, cabin, tent, or hut of the North American Indian peoples of the region of the Great Lakes and eastward, formed of bark, matting, or hides stretched over a frame of...
13. zamang, n. View full entry 1819
...A large ornamental leguminous tree (Pithecolobium Saman, suborder Mimoseæ) of tropical S. America, having a spreading head of branches of immense extent....
