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shoshoni river

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Sho⋅sho⋅ne

[shoh-shoh-nee]
–noun, plural -nes, (especially collectively) -ne for 2.
1. a river in NW Wyoming, flowing NE into the Big Horn River. 120 mi. (193 km) long.
2. a member of any of several Numic-speaking peoples of California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming.
3. the language or languages of the Shoshone.
Also, Shoshoni (for defs. 2, 3).


Origin:
1805, Americanism; < an Eastern Shoshone band name
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