A member of the Carib people (see Carib, n. 1) of the West Indies, who were said to eat human flesh. Chiefly in plural. Obsolete.
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释义 | the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of the West Indies > [noun] > Carib Indian > peoples (7) cannibal1553 A member of the Carib people (see Carib, n. 1) of the West Indies, who were said to eat human flesh. Chiefly in plural. Obsolete. Black Carib1767 A member of a people descended from African former slaves and the indigenous Caribs of St Vincent in the Lesser Antilles, and subsequently… Akawaio1769 A member of a Carib people inhabiting parts of Guyana, esp. in the upper Mazaruni river region. Macusi1819 A member of a Carib people inhabiting parts of Guyana, Brazil, and Venezuela. Taino1836 A member of an indigenous people inhabiting the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas at the time of the arrival of Columbus. In recent use also as a… Motilon1852 A member of any of various peoples living in and around the Colombian and Venezuelan Andes and in the lowlands around Lake Maracaibo. Island Carib1938 (a) an Amerindian people of the Lesser Antilles, of Carib and Arawak descent; (b) the language of this people. |
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