Seriland
Seriland proper noun: an area of Sonora, Mexico traditionally inhabited by the Seri people.
Proper noun
Seriland
- An area of Sonora, Mexico traditionally inhabited by the Seri people.
- On entering Seriland, as the territory was spontaneously designated by different members of the expedition...1896, W. J. McGee, Expedition to Papagueria and Seriland, in American Anthropologist, Vol. 9, No. 3
- It is especially fortunate that Seriland should have been explored by an ethnologist eminently fitted to describe the physiographic features of that little-known region.1901, Frank Russell, review of The Seri Indians, in The American Naturalist, Vol. 35, No. 418
Origin of Seriland
From Seri + land.
Questions about Seriland
- What does Seriland mean?
- Seriland means an area of Sonora, Mexico traditionally inhabited by the Seri people.
- What part of speech is Seriland?
- Seriland is a proper noun.
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