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Ved⋅da

  [ved-uh]
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–noun
a Sri Lankan aborigine.
Also, Veddah.
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Ved·da also Ved·dah   (věd'ə)   
n.   pl. Vedda or Ved·das also Veddah or Ved·dahs
A member of the earliest people of Sri Lanka, originally forest-dwelling hunters but now almost completely assimilated into the modern Sinhalese population.

[Sinhalese, hunter.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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