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Ji⋅ca⋅ril⋅la

[hee-kuh-ree-uh]
–noun, plural -ril⋅las, (especially collectively) -ril⋅la for 1.
1. a member of a group of North American Indians who once inhabited primarily northern New Mexico and southeastern Colorado and are situated in northwestern New Mexico.
2. the Athabaskan language of the Jicarilla.
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Ji·ca·ril·la   (hē'kə-rē'yə, -rēl'yə)   
n.   pl. Jicarilla or Ji·ca·ril·las
  1. An Apache tribe formerly inhabiting southeast Colorado and northern New Mexico and ranging eastward to the Great Plains, with a present-day population in northern New Mexico.

  2. A member of this tribe.


[American Spanish (Apaches de la) Jicarilla, (Apaches of the) Jicarilla, probably diminutive of jícara, chocolate-cup (from the shape of a local hill), perhaps from Nahuatl xicalli, gourd, drinking vessel.]
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