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Definition of Mohave
1. Noun. A member of the North American Indian people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona and Nevada and California.
2. Noun. A desert area in southern California and western Arizona.
Generic synonyms: Desert
Group relationships: Arizona, Az, Grand Canyon State, Ca, Calif., California, Golden State
Terms within: Death Valley
3. Noun. The Yuman language spoken by the Mohave.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mohave
Literary usage of Mohave
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association (1902)
"PRELIMINARY SKETCH OF THE mohave INDIANS By AL KROEBER The following account,
... The country of the mohave lies along both sides of Colorado river, ..."
2. Investigations of Infra-red Spectra by William Weber Coblentz (1908)
"THE mohave DESERT. Ascending from the San Bernardino Valley northward through
the long climb of Cajon Pass, the railroad at last emerges from the dense ..."
3. Annual Report (1873)
"The lexicon of this dialect shows many terms in which it differs from mohave and
the other dialects. But the prefixes, suffixes, ..."
4. Popular Science Monthly (1914)
"the mohave. Some of the existing types, as the bighorn, are immigrants from the
Old World, and arrived very late in the history of this region. ..."
5. Massacres of the Mountains: A History of the Indian Wars of the Far West by Jacob Piatt Dunn (1886)
"... but Miss Oatman stated that their markings were different from those of the
mohave women, and that they were not treated as wives by their owners. ..."
6. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"IN THE mohave As I rode down the arroyo through yuccas belled with bloom I saw
a last year's stalk lift dried hands to the light, Like age at prayer for ..."
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