Calusa

Definitions

noun A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting the southwest coast of Florida from Tampa Bay to the Florida Keys. The Calusa were extinct by the mid-1700s.
noun The extinct language of the Calusa, of unknown linguistic affiliation.

proper noun a Native American people who lived on the coast and along the inner waterways of Florida's southwest coast.

[Calusa, fierce people (sense uncertain); perhaps akin to Choctaw kallo, strong.]

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“He called Calusa Springs to ask about her maybe renting there.”

Alice in Jeopardy Ed McBain 2005
“He called Calusa Springs to ask about her maybe renting there.”

Alice in Jeopardy Ed McBain 2005
“He called Calusa Springs to ask about her maybe renting there.”

Alice in Jeopardy Ed McBain 2005
“He called Calusa Springs to ask about her maybe renting there.”

Alice in Jeopardy Ed McBain 2005
Panfílo de Narváez, a red-haired, one-eyed, mean son of Spain, famous for ordering the slaughter of 2,500 native people in Cuba, got the license to run Florida after Juan Ponce de León succumbed to that Calusa arrow.

Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
Besides, he thought the poetical old Calusa name “Miami” would draw more paying customers.

Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
They get their first real clue on a call they make to Calusa Springs.

Alice in Jeopardy Ed McBain 2005
She tells him that GTE here in Florida was able to provide a New Orleans phone number for the call made to Harper Realty in Calusa Springs.

Alice in Jeopardy Ed McBain 2005
Said he was trying to locate two women traveling together, a blonde and a black woman, who may have rented recently here in Calusa Springs.

Alice in Jeopardy Ed McBain 2005
Said he was trying to locate two women traveling together, a blonde and a black woman, who may have rented recently here in Calusa Springs.

Alice in Jeopardy Ed McBain 2005