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Klamath|ˈklæməθ|
Also † Clamet.
[ad. Chinook łámał Klamath.]
A. n. A Penutian Indian people of the Oregon-California border; a member of this people; also, their language.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people.
1826J. McLoughlin Lett. (1941) I. 33 Mr. Ogden [goes]..thence towards Lac Sale makes a Circuit West and comes Out above the Clamet tribe. 1853H. R. Schoolcraft Hist. & Stat. Information Indian Tribes III. 133 The goods destined for the Klamath Indians had been sent to Trinidad. 1881Encycl. Brit. XII. 826/2 The Klamath family,..comprises the Lutuami or Klamaths proper. Ibid., Californian Races.—This is mainly a geographical grouping, but with three large ethnical and linguistic families—the Klamath, Pomo, and Runsien. 1890A. S. Gatschet Klamath Indians i. 209 Triphthongs are not infrequent, since Klamath has a greater tendency to accumulate consonants than vowels. 1923[see Dakota n. 2]. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Spring 123 The last family represented in Oregon is Klamath-Modoc. Klamath speakers are found in fairly large numbers... Modoc is represented by only about seven or eight speakers.
C. Klamath weed, the local name of a species of St. John's wort, Hypericum perforatum.
1922F. J. Smiley Weeds Calif. 54 (Hypericum perforatum L.) English names:..Common St. John's-wort..Klamath weed. 1949Sunday World-Herald Mag. (Omaha) 1 May 10/1 Klamath weed probably can be controlled or destroyed chemically. 1971Debach & Huffaker in C. B. Huffaker Biol. Control v. 118 Figure 1..shows the degree of biological control achieved in California of the formerly serious Klamath weed, Hypericum perforatum L., by colonization of an imported exotic beetle which feeds upon it. |