Mohican

/moʊˈhikən/
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Other forms: Mohicans

Definitions of Mohican
  1. noun
    a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic
    synonyms: Mahican
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    type of:
    Algonquian, Algonquin
    a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
  2. noun
    the Algonquian language spoken by the Mohican
    synonyms: Mahican
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    type of:
    Algonquian, Algonquian language, Algonquin
    family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
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