Blackfoot

//ˈblæk.fʊt// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of a North American confederacy of several tribes.

    "Bears and other ferocious beasts resented man's intrusion into their domain; so, too, did the Blackfoot Indians and other tribes, whose savage hostility was a constant menace to the lives of the toiling engineers."

  2. 2
    A tropical American bush of the genus Melampodium. uncountable
  3. 3
    any of the Algonquian languages spoken by the Blackfoot wordnet
  4. 4
    a member of a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plains wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Algonquian language of these people.
  2. 2
    A city, the county seat of Bingham County, Idaho, United States.

Synonyms

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blackfoot languageenglishlanguageniitsitapiniitsítapi

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"Bears and other ferocious beasts resented man's intrusion into their domain; so, too, did the Blackfoot Indians and other tribes, whose savage hostility was a constant menace to the lives of the toiling engineers."

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