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Definition of Cocopah

1. Noun. A member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado River.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cocopah

Literary usage of Cocopah

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory, William Phipps Blake (1915)
"This basin west of the cocopah range was named the Pattie Basin in recognition of the first recorded visit to the place by the Patties, father and son, ..."

2. Reminiscences of a Ranger: Or, Early Times in Southern California by Horace Bell (1881)
"A very short time after his accession to the throne, the cocopah Commissioners appeared at the Mojave capital to receive the annual tribute, which the young ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1878)
"The cocopah Indians consume large quantities of this fruit while fresh, ... cocopah Indians consume the fruit fresh and dry in great quantities; ..."

4. The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (southern California) Its Rivers and Its by George Wharton James (1906)
"This superstition of the Indian is well known, but it is not often an Indian can be found who will express it as does this young cocopah. ..."

5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1875)
"The cocopah Mountains extend over this desert for about 50 miles, and are about ... On the southerly side of the cocopah Mountains ¡з а large body of land, ..."

6. Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman by Martha Summerhayes (1911)
"We boarded the river steamboat "cocopah," towing a barge loaded with soldiers, ... Towards the end of the afternoon the "cocopah" put her nose to the ..."

7. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1880)
"The cocopah Indians consume large- quantities of this fruit while fresh,and ... cocopah Indians consume this fruit, like the above, both in the fresh and ..."

8. The Story of Arizona by William Henry Robinson (1919)
"2, 145 feet long; the Mojave, 135 feet long; the cocopah No. 2, and barges Black Crook, White Fawn and Yuma. Opposition to the Johnston line appeared in ..."

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