Tuscaroras

Variant of Tuscarora

Tuscarora definition

Tus·ca·rora (tus′kə rôr′ə)

noun

  1. pl. Tuscaroras -·ras or Tuscarora -·ra a member of a North American Indian people, orig. of North Carolina, but after 1714 of New York and later also Ontario: joined Iroquois Confederacy c. 1722 to become the sixth of the Six Nations
  2. the Iroquoian language of this people

Etymology: < a Five-Nations Iroquois language, an adaptation of Tuscarora skarò˙rəʾ, lit., ? those of the Indian hemp

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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