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Folsom

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Fol·som  (flsm)
adj.
Of or relating to a culture that flourished in western North America east of the Rocky Mountains during the late Pleistocene Epoch, notable chiefly for the use of grooved, leaf-shaped flint projectile points.
[After Folsom, a town of northeast New Mexico.]


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