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Mojave

American  
[moh-hah-vee] / moʊˈhɑ vi /

noun

  • Mojaves,
    plural
  • Mojave
    plural
  1. Mohave.


Mojave British  
/ məʊˈhɑːvɪ /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Mohave

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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After living in Riverside for decades, the family moved to the Mojave Desert town of Adelanto in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

It was July in the Mojave Desert, and the thermometer climbed toward 110 degrees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

On the nearby Mojave South section of the San Andreas fault, modeled stress has reached 2.8 MPa.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

The sun-washed stretch of Mojave Desert sits at the base of a volcanic mountain range roughly 20 miles east of Barstow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Near the end of his trip, it turned out, Chris had gotten lost in the Mojave Desert and had nearly succumbed to dehydration.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Avi Kwa Ame, for the Fort Mojaves, is not a recreational place.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023

Perhaps we, too, are mosses, evolving to the parch of our self-made Mojaves.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 19, 2022

Hoffman, as made in Northern Arizona in 1871 by the Apaches, Mojaves, Hualpais, and Seviches.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Garrick Mallery

The only Indians we had seen up to that time were the peaceful tribes of the Yumas, Cocopahs and Mojaves, who lived along the Colorado.

From Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes

The Mojaves are accustomed to play a similar game which has been described under the name "Hoop and Pole".

From Indian Games : an historical research by Andrew McFarland Davis

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