Tensaw
Tensaw is the alternative form of Taensa.
Meaning of Taensa
Noun
Taensa (plural Taensas or Taensa)
- A member of a Native American people whose settlements at the time of European contact in the late 17th century were located in present-day Tensas Parish, Louisiana.
- The Very Rev. Mr. Montigny took up his residence among the Taensas, a tribe allied to the Natchez.1886, John Gilmary Shea, A History of the Catholic Church Within the Limits of the United States, page 539
Proper noun
Tensaw
- A distributary of the Mobile River in southern Alabama, United States.
Forms of Tensaw
| plural | Tensaws |
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Questions about Tensaw
- What does Tensaw mean?
- Tensaw means a distributary of the Mobile River in southern Alabama, United States.
- What is Tensaw the alternative form of?
- Tensaw is the alternative form of Taensa.
- What part of speech is Tensaw?
- Tensaw is a proper noun.
Words near Tensaw in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tensaw (page history and authors); Taensa (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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