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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Belonging to Fuegia, or Tierra del Fuego (“Land of Fire,” so named from the numerous fires seen there on its discovery by Magellan in 1520), a group of islands off the southern extremity of South America, including Cape Horn, inhabited by a low race of savages.
  • noun A native or an inhabitant of Fuegia, or Tierra del Fuego.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Terra del Fuego.

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