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PIMA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pima mean?
• PIMA (noun)
The noun PIMA has 2 senses:
1. a member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico
2. the Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Pima
Familiarity information: PIMA used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Pima" is a kind of...):
Buffalo Indian; Plains Indian (a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Pima
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Pima" is a kind of...):
Uto-Aztecan; Uto-Aztecan language (a family of American Indian languages)
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