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Querandí

Querandí noun: indigenous South-American tribe who lived in the present Argentine province La Pampa.

Noun

Querandí pl (plural only)

  1. (historical, plural, plural-only) Indigenous South-American tribe who lived in the present Argentine province La Pampa.
    • Most troublesomely, the local indigenous population, the Querandí, were nomadic hunters, not settled farmers. There was no agricultural surplus for the Spanish to appropriate, and the mobility of the Querandí made them impossible to control.2011, Norman Henderson, Rediscovering the Prairies: Journeys by Dog, Horse, and Canoe, TouchWood Editions, →ISBN

Proper noun

Querandí

  1. A language that was once spoken by these people.
    Synonyms:
    Pampas, Puelche

Synonyms of Querandí

Origin of Querandí

From Paraguayan Guarani [Term?], literally "men with fat", because they had a lot of fat in their diet.

Questions about Querandí

What does Querandí mean?
Querandí means indigenous South-American tribe who lived in the present Argentine province La Pampa.
What part of speech is Querandí?
Querandí can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near Querandí in the dictionary

  1. quequahatch
  2. quequahatches
  3. quequehatch
  4. quequehatches
  5. quequisque
  6. Querandí
  7. quercetagetin
  8. quercetagetins
  9. quercetagitrin
  10. quercetamide
  11. quercetin

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