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Incan

Incan adjective: of or pertaining to the Inca people and culture.

Adjective

Incan (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the Inca people and culture.
    • Gene Savoy, an amateur archaeologist whose success in finding some 40 Incan and pre-Incan ruins in Peru was matched by a flair for self-promotion that drew on his tales of peril in the jungle, his bandito mustache and Stetson hat, and a retinue of would-be explorers who paid to accompany him, died...2007 September 19, Douglas Martin, “Gene Savoy, Flamboyant Explorer of Ruins, Dies at 80”, in The New York Times

Forms of Incan

alternative formInkan

Origin of Incan

From Inca + -an.

Questions about Incan

What does Incan mean?
Incan means of or pertaining to the Inca people and culture.
What part of speech is Incan?
Incan is an adjective.

Words near Incan in the dictionary

  1. incameration
  2. incamp
  3. incamped
  4. incamping
  5. incamps
  6. Incan
  7. incandesce
  8. incandesced
  9. incandescence
  10. incandescences
  11. incandescency

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