cherokee has definitions from the field of linguistics
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[ noun ] (linguistics) the Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee people

Used in print

(S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)

She was a living doll and no mistake - the blue-black bang , the wide cheekbones , olive flushed , that betrayed the Cherokee strain in her Midwestern lineage , and the mouth whose only fault , in the novelist 's carping phrase , was that the lower lip was a_trifle too voluptuous .

Related terms

Iroquoian

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[ noun ] a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living in the Appalachian Mountains but now chiefly in Oklahoma

Related terms

Iroquois george_guess

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