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Mai⋅du

  [mahy-doo]
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–noun, plural -dus, (especially collectively) -du for 1.
1. a member of a tribe of North American Indians of northeastern California.
2. the Penutian language of the Maidu.
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Mai·du   (mī'dōō)   
n.   pl. Maidu or Mai·dus

    1. A Native American people inhabiting northeast California south of Lassen Peak.

    2. A member of this people.

  2. The Penutian language of the Maidu.

Mai'du adj.
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Maidu

North American Indians who spoke a language of Penutian stock and originally lived in a territory extending eastward from the Sacramento River to the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountains and centring chiefly in the drainage of the Feather and American rivers in California, U.S

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