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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting parts of North Carolina, with present-day populations in western New York and southeast Ontario, Canada. The Tuscarora migrated northward in the 1700s, joining the Iroquois confederacy in 1722 and adopting aspects of the Iroquois culture.
  • noun The Iroquoian language of the Tuscarora.

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  • noun A Native American people with members in New York, Canada, and North Carolina.
  • proper noun Their Iroquoian language.

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  • noun the Iroquoian language spoken by the Tuscarora
  • noun a member of an Iroquois people who formerly lived in North Carolina and then moved to New York State and joined the Iroquois

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From an Iroquoian source such as Mohawk akothasakaróręˀ; akin to Tuscarora skarò·rənˀ, ethnic self-designation, of unknown origin (but traditionally interpreted as “those of the fiber plant Apocynum cannabinum” ).]

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