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catawba

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Ca⋅taw⋅ba

  [kuh-taw-buh]
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–noun
1. a Siouan language of North and South Carolina.
2. a river flowing from W North Carolina into South Carolina, where it becomes the Wateree River. Compare Wateree.
3. Horticulture.
a. a reddish variety of grape.
b. the vine bearing this fruit, grown in the eastern U.S.
4. a light, dry, white wine made from this grape.
Origin:
1710–20, Americanism; appar. ult. < Catawba (yį́) kátapu a village name, lit., (people of) the fork; perh. via Shawnee kata⋅pa
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Ca·taw·ba 1   (kə-tô'bə)   
n.   pl. Catawba or Ca·taw·bas

    1. A Native American people formerly inhabiting territory along the Catawba River in North and South Carolina and now located in western South Carolina.

    2. A member of this people.

  2. The Siouan language of the Catawba.

Ca·taw·ba 2   (kə-tô'bə)   
n.  

  1. A reddish North American grape developed from the fox grape.

  2. Wine made from this grape.


[After the Catawba (River).]
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