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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of an Arawak people of the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas whose culture was destroyed by genocide, epidemics, and assimilation under Spanish colonization in the early 1500s.
- noun The language of this people.
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- proper noun Alternative form of
Taino .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Spanish, of American Indian origin.]
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