(n. sing. & pl.) A powerful and warlike confederacy of Indian tribes, formerly inhabiting Central New York and constituting most of the Five Nations. Also, any Indian of the Iroquois tribes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mean age at onset of diabetes, 59 years, was 10 years higher than that observed in Oneida Iroquois of Ontario.
(2) The incidence of this bridging trait was investigated according to that standard in nine cranial series of East Indians, Micronesians, Japanese, Ainu, Mongols, Aleuts, Alaskan Eskimos, Canadian Eskimos, and Ontario Iroquois.
(3) Intraobserver scoring precision of 50 discontinuous (discrete) cranial traits was assessed on a sample of 125 intact Iroquois crania using the square of the phi coefficient.
(4) Incidence of the trait was less in East Indians, Ontario Iroquois, and Micronesians, but greater in Alaskan Eskimos and Canadian Eskimos, the incidences in Japanese, Ainu, Aleuts, and Mongols being intermediate.
Mohican
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The other is a flamboyant showman who delights in peroxide mohicans and driving a variety of fast cars – most notably, perhaps, an army camouflage Bentley Continental GT.
(2) Non-mainstream economists who have retired, or have left, have not been replaced, and the lecturer who agreed to run "Bubbles" for us is on a short-term contract, the Last of the Mohicans.
(3) A branch of McDonald's was attacked, a statue of Winston Churchill was given a grass Mohican, and the Cenotaph was graffitied.
(4) I locate the mohican of one of her co-writers, Chuck Lightning (the other is called Nate Wonder), and ask him who arranges the Disney-style string sections on Monáe's records, who writes what she calls the "classy brass"?
(5) Writers such as Washington Irving (in his short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) and James Fenimore Cooper (in The Last of the Mohicans ) had begun to pioneer American subjects in a distinctive American voice.
(6) Monday morning is not, by tradition, the high-functioning point in a young musician's week, but Healy is alert and engaging, balanced on the outer limit of a sofa, pawing his greased mohican with one hand and a takeaway cup of coffee with the other.
(7) As an adolescent, she sported a blue mohican as wide as the blade on a circular saw and came top in many yearbook categories: Class Clown, Most Bizarre Girl, Most Likely To Go Bald at School.
(8) After that, he played a series of memorable roles: quadriplegic artist Christy Brown in My Left Foot (for which he won an Oscar); the feral Hawkeye in The Last of the Mohicans; half-crazed Gerry Conlon wrongfully imprisoned for his role in the Guildford bombing in In the Name of the Father; the cold repressed lover in Scorsese's The Age of Innocence.
(9) Here I can find designer clothes no one else has," she said, sporting a rainbow-coloured mohican haircut.
(10) "You wouldn't ask that question if you turned up to some of the auditions and saw some of the people with Mohican hair painted pink and bones through their nose," Sugar said at the programme launch on Tuesday.
(11) The real Jonathan is warm and bearish, with a mohican, chic specs, a scarlet fleece, hippyish brown leather shoes – loads of visual flair.
(12) To be a mohican-wearing punk in London is to be a kitsch throwback – but in Indonesia or Burma, it can put you on the receiving end of heinous treatment from the authorities.
(13) "When we watch things at the theatre that we don't like," says Allen, "we try to imagine that everyone on stage has a razor-thin, pink Mohican that's about a foot high.
(14) Salinger's departure means that his nearest surviving contemporaries, the last of the Mohicans, are the youthful figures of Philip Roth (76) and Gore Vidal (84).
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close There's a bit of a carnival atmosphere with people dressed up as robots and one man with a mohican and a thick gold chain holding a banner saying "Mr T party movement".
(16) Forget the frantic hairstyles (skinhead, Mohican, ponytail, kiss-curl, spiky, slicked back, bleached, etc) and the wretched tattoos.