Jicarilla

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Ji·ca·ril·la

J0040950 (hē′kə-rē′yə, -rēl′yə)n. pl. Jicarilla or Ji·ca·ril·las A member of an Apache tribe formerly inhabiting southeast Colorado and northern New Mexico and ranging eastward to the Great Plains, with a present-day population in northern New Mexico.
[American Spanish (Apaches de la) Jicarilla, (Apaches of the) Jicarilla, probably diminutive of jícara, chocolate-cup (from the shape of a local hill), perhaps from Nahuatl xicalli, gourd, drinking vessel.]