Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people inhabiting south-central Arizona along the Gila and Salt Rivers.
- noun The Uto-Aztecan language of the Pima, closely related to O'odham.
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- proper noun a group of
American Indians living in an area consisting of what is now central and southernArizona (USA) andSonora (Mexico).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico
- noun the Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Pima
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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PIMA COUNTY, AZ - The Arizona Governor's Office of Highway Safety has awarded the Pima
No Stories found 2010
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Latham used the term Pima in 1850, citing under it three dialects or languages.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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Hospitals in Pima County absorbed $76 million for treating illegal immigrants in the year 2000.
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Amnesty: MSM & Mayor Bloomberg have priorities 2006
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Hospitals in Pima County absorbed $76 million for treating illegal immigrants in the year 2000.
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One study in Pima Indians looked at the amount of the time between the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and the appearance of renal disease.
USATODAY.com - How parents can handle the topic of weight 2006
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Hospitals in Pima County absorbed $76 million for treating illegal immigrants in the year 2000.
Minutemen Back On The Border…Early Numbers Are Startling 2006
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The name Pima came when USDA named this American - Egyptian cotton in honor of the Pima Indians who helped cultivate the first experimental crops.
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I have never gotten a ticket in Pima County, so I can’t personally vouch that the document is real.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ten Rules for Dealing with Police 2010
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I don’t remember the man being that big of a whiner back in Pima County, but that was a few lost neurons ago.
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He is basically a product of the local machine politics in Pima County, and left to his own devices couldn’t find his ass with two hands and a flashlight.
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