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Ya⋅no⋅ma⋅mo

  [yah-nuh-mah-moh]
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–noun, plural -mos, (especially collectively) -mo for 1.
1. a member of an indigenous people of southern Venezuela and neighboring Brazil who live in scattered villages in the rain forests and conduct warfare against one another continually.
2. the family of languages spoken by the Yanomamo.
Also, Yanomama.
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Ya·no·ma·mi   (yä'nə-mä'mē)   
n.   pl. Yanomami or Ya·no·ma·mis or Yanomamo or Ya·no·ma·mos

  1. A member of a South American Indian people living in widely scattered villages along the Brazil-Venezuela border.

  2. The language of the Yanomami.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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