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Mi⋅wok

  [mee-wok]
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–noun, plural -woks, (especially collectively) -wok for 1.
1. a member of an American Indian people formerly living in several noncontiguous areas of California north of San Francisco Bay and eastward from the San Joaquin-Sacramento delta to the Sierras.
2. any of the Penutian languages spoken by the Miwok.
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Mi·wok   (mē'wŏk)   
n.   pl. Miwok or Mi·woks

    1. A Native American people formerly composed of numerous groups inhabiting central California from the Sierra Nevada foothills to the San Francisco Bay area, with a small number of present-day descendants in the same region.

    2. A member of this people.

  2. Any of the Penutian languages of this people.


[Central Sierra Miwok míw··k, people.]
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