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Maricopas

Maricopas is the plural of Maricopa.

Meaning of Maricopa

Noun

Maricopa (plural Maricopas or Maricopa)

  1. A member of a Native American people belonging to the Yuman linguistic stock, a part of the Hokan family. They originate in the Colorado River area, but following an exodus in the 1700s or 1800s, they live amongst the Pima in the vicinity of the Gila and Salt Rivers.
    • In the valley of the Gila and on its tributaries from the northeast are the Pimas, Maricopas, and Papagos.1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961...

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Questions about Maricopas

What is Maricopas the plural of?
Maricopas is the plural of Maricopa.

Words near Maricopas in the dictionary

  1. maricones
  2. maricons
  3. Maricopa
  4. Maricopa County
  5. maricopaite
  6. Maricopas
  7. maricultural
  8. mariculture
  9. maricultured
  10. maricultures
  11. mariculturist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Maricopas (page history and authors); Maricopa (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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