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单词 Zuni
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Zuni

/ˈzuːni /
(also Zuñi /ˈzuːɲi/)
noun (plural same or Zunis)
1A member of a Pueblo Indian people of western New Mexico.They like to be called what they are - Utes, Hopis, Zunis - and collectively, they answer to ‘first people’....
  • Kirk Bemis, the Zunis ' hydrologist, says that the appropriate studies on these other aquifers have yet to be done.
  • She makes her living as an itinerant folksinger whose songs become her means of trying to claim an identity for herself as a Zuni.
2 [mass noun] The language of the Zuni, with about 3,000 speakers.He curses at him in Zuñi and spits on the ground, as he has seen Popé do.
adjective
Relating to the Zuni or their language.She furthered Hopi and Zuni art in the Southwest, working in ceramics and silver....
  • Logan had learned this tract was mistakenly omitted from the government's official demarcation of Zuni boundaries five years earlier.
  • It seems he was given to going around in Zuni costume, but, his rivals complained, it was not strictly authentic.
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