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Pima
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Pi·ma  (pm)
n. pl. Pima or Pi·mas
1.
a. A Native American people inhabiting south-central Arizona along the Gila and Salt rivers.
b. A member of this people.
2. The Uto-Aztecan language of the Pima, dialectally related to Papago.
[From American Spanish Pimahitos, Pimas, from obsolete Pima pimahaitu, nothing (misunderstood by missionaries as a tribal name).]
Piman adj.
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Noun1.Pima - a member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern MexicoPima - a member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico
Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian - a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America
2.Pima - the Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Pima
Uto-Aztecan, Uto-Aztecan language - a family of American Indian languages
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