TUSCARORA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tuscarora mean? 

• TUSCARORA (noun)
  The noun TUSCARORA has 2 senses:

1. a member of an Iroquois people who formerly lived in North Carolina and then moved to New York State and joined the Iroquois

2. the Iroquoian language spoken by the Tuscarora

  Familiarity information: TUSCARORA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUSCARORA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of an Iroquois people who formerly lived in North Carolina and then moved to New York State and joined the Iroquois

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Tuscarora" is a kind of...):

Iroquois (any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The Iroquoian language spoken by the Tuscarora

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Tuscarora" is a kind of...):

Iroquoian; Iroquoian language; Iroquois (a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois)