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Catawba definition

Ca·tawba (kə tô′bə, -tä′-)

noun

  1. a member of a North American Indian people now living in N South Carolina
  2. the Siouan language of this people
    1. a cultivated variety of the fox grape, widely grown in the E U.S.
    2. a wine made from this grape

Etymology: Shawnee kataapa < Catawba (yí) kátapu, village name, lit., (people of) the fork

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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