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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting the shores of Cayuga Lake in west-central New York, with present-day populations in Ontario, western New York, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma. The Cayuga are one of the five original tribes of the Iroquois confederacy.
  • noun The Iroquoian language spoken by the Cayuga.

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  • noun One of an indigenous people of North America, part of the Iroquois Confederacy.
  • proper noun Their Northern Iroquoian language.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living around Cayuga Lake in New York State
  • noun the Iroquoian language spoken by the Cayuga

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Examples

  • Luckily the Cayuga is quite neutral and makes a great base for the Cab Franc fruit to lead the way.

    What We Drank (6/16/09) 2009

  • Luckily the Cayuga is quite neutral and makes a great base for the Cab Franc fruit to lead the way.

    What We Drank 2009

  • Luckily the Cayuga is quite neutral and makes a great base for the Cab Franc fruit to lead the way.

    LENNDEVOURS: 2009

  • When we bought our house, I was constantly amused by listings which described it as being in Cayuga Heights because kids in my neighborhood go to that elementary school.

    Living in Dryden: September 2004 Archives 2004

  • When we bought our house, I was constantly amused by listings which described it as being in Cayuga Heights because kids in my neighborhood go to that elementary school.

    Living in Dryden: Ellis Hollow fair, ICSD redistricting 2004

  • It was very confusing when we bought this house that realtor. com kept claiming it was in Cayuga Heights because of the school.

    Living in Dryden: December 2003 Archives 2003

  • It was very confusing when we bought this house that realtor. com kept claiming it was in Cayuga Heights because of the school.

    Living in Dryden: Schools, dispatchers 2003

  • All that day I spent in acquainting myself with the camp which had been pitched, as I say, on the neck of land bounded by the Susquehanna and the Chemung, with a small creek, called Cayuga by some, Seneca Creek by others, intersecting it and flowing south into the Susquehanna.

    The Hidden Children 1899

  • The opinion I have ever expressed of the advantages of a western communication through the James River, I still entertain; and that the Cayuga is the most promising of the links of communication.

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Thomas Jefferson 1784

  • Instant Scouting Report (Now): There's not as much talk about Shead changing positions as there is with Whaley, though he certainly seems like he could play linebacker and had some experience there in high school playing both ways for Cayuga, which is 1A.

    Burnt Orange Nation 2010

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