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ANASAZI
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Anasazi" is a kind of...):
Amerindian; Native American (any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Anasazi"):
cliff dweller (a member of the Anasazi people living in the southwestern United States who built rock or adobe dwellings on ledges in the sides of caves)