Hu·ron 
(hy
r
ən, -
ŏn
′)
n. pl. Huron or
Hu·rons 1. A member of a Native American confederacy formerly inhabiting southeast Ontario around Lake Simcoe, with small present-day populations in Quebec and northeast Oklahoma, where they are known as Wyandot. The Huron traded extensively throughout eastern Canada until the confederacy was destroyed by war with the Iroquois in the mid-1600s.
2. The Iroquoian language of the Huron.
[French, boor, Huron, from Old French hure, bristling hair.]