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COSTANOAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Penutian language spoken by the Costanoan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

Penutian (a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of a North American Indian people living in coastal California between Monterey and San Francisco Bay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

Penutian (a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages)

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