Mohave

Or Mo·ja·ve

[moh-hah-vee]

noun

plural

Mohaves ,

plural

Mohave .

1. a member of a North American Indian tribe belonging to the Yuman linguistic family, formerly located in the Colorado River valley of Arizona and California.

adjective

1. of or relating to the Mohave tribe.

Mohave

/ məʊˈhɑːvɪ /

noun

1. a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the Colorado River

2. the language of this people, belonging to the Yuman family

Example Sentences

CoreCivic’s 2,560-bed immigration detention center there sits on 70 acres in the Mohave Desert about 80 miles east of Bakersfield.

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Rescue teams from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department and the Mohave County Sheriff’s Department deployed divers to where Daniel was last seen, authorities said.

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Sheriff’s deputies in Mohave County stopped a white panel van seen leaving the area and found about 180 pairs of then-unreleased Air Jordan 11 Retro Legend Blue sneakers valued at $41,400, the complaint states.

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According to NBC News, officials in Mohave County, Arizona, last year found that staffers took three minutes to count a single ballot and routinely made errors in the process when testing out hand-counting votes.

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Avantus said that so far they have found one Mohave ground squirrel and no tortoises.

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