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Clovis point

Clovis point noun: a fluted spearhead or the like created by people of the prehistoric Paleoamerican Clovis culture.

Noun

Clovis point (plural Clovis points)

  1. A fluted spearhead or the like created by people of the prehistoric Paleoamerican Clovis culture.
    • They closely resemble the famed American Clovis points, which are associated with large mammal extinctions across the North American continent.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 219

Forms of Clovis point

pluralClovis points

Questions about Clovis point

What does Clovis point mean?
Clovis point means a fluted spearhead or the like created by people of the prehistoric Paleoamerican Clovis culture.
What part of speech is Clovis point?
Clovis point is a noun.
What is the plural of Clovis point?
The plural of Clovis point is Clovis points.

Words near Clovis point in the dictionary

  1. clovetree
  2. clovewort
  3. cloveworts
  4. Clovin
  5. Clovis
  6. Clovis point
  7. Clovis points
  8. clovoxamine
  9. Clow
  10. Cloward
  11. Cloward-Piven strategy

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