Mohican
noun
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Mohican
American
[moh-hee-kuhn]
/ moʊˈhi kən /
noun
Mohicans
plural
Mohican
1
British
/ ˈməʊɪkən, məʊˈhiːkən, məˈhiːkən /
noun
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a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the Hudson river and east of it
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the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family
mohican
2
British
/ məʊˈhiːkən /
noun
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a punk hairstyle in which the head is shaved at the sides and the remaining strip of hair is worn stiffly erect and sometimes brightly coloured
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a person wearing such a hairstyle
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In the African bush in southern Kenya, Lucy King watched an elephant nicknamed Mohican rest under an acacia tree, seemingly nonplussed by an overhead beehive.
From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2021
Around 30 miles of trails lace this roughly 11,000-acre realm, which once formed part of Mohican and Mohawk hunting grounds.
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2020
Beyond state and city efforts, George Preston, president of the nearby Mohican Regent Resident Association, said all the community groups in the 48205 are uniting to come up with ways to better the neighborhoods.
From Washington Times • May 7, 2018
Jacobs is a member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation, a Native American tribe in central Wisconsin.
From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2017
The movement, the exhibition, and the cry, which again burst from the lips of the young Mohican, instantly drew the whole party about him.
From The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 by Cooper, James Fenimore
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