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folsom

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Fol⋅som

  [fohl-suhm]
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–noun
a town in central California. 11,003.

Fol⋅som

  [fohl-suhm]
–adjective
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a prehistoric North American cultural tradition extensive in the Great Plains about 11,000 years ago and typified by the use of the Folsom point.
Origin:
after Folsom, a village in NE New Mexico, near where remains typifying the culture were found in 1925
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Fol·som   (fōl'səm)   
adj.  Of or relating to a culture that flourished in western North America east of the Rocky Mountains during the late Pleistocene Epoch, notable chiefly for the use of grooved, leaf-shaped flint projectile points.

[After Folsom, a town of northeast New Mexico.]
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