Mono
nounproper nounnounproper nounattested in dialogue
- //ˈmoʊnoʊ//
A member of a Native American people who traditionally live in the central and eastern Sierra Nevada, the Mono Basin, and adjacent areas of the Great Basin in California.
noun
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A member of a Native American people who traditionally live in the central and eastern Sierra Nevada, the Mono Basin, and adjacent areas of the Great Basin in California.
The Mono believe that Condor seized humans, cut off their heads and drained their blood in order to flood the home of Ground Squirrel.
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A Mono wind.
[…]SANTA ANAS, MONOS, AND NORTHERS.
Much of the cool weather was accompanied by dry winds and the occurrence of Monos and Santa Anas was above normal.
[…]Santa Anas of southern California, the Monos of northern California, and the dry winds in Oregon and Washington. In Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, the hot, desiccating winds, called "Siroccos", blow from the desert (south)[…]
[…]the Monos blow from the east. If the ambient northeast Santa Ana winds are of low to moderate intensity and are blowing aloft but not along the ground, upcanyon south or southwest daytime winds may be measured at a burn site when official[…]
Etymology
Uncertain. The Monache, a related ethnic group, seem to derive their name from the same common source as the Mono, as -chi occurs otherwise in the Yokutsan and Miwok languages as a relatively common suffix on tribal names.
proper noun
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The Numic language of the Mono people of California.
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A county in California, United States, see Mono County.
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An alkaline desert lake (Mono Lake) in this county, having a unique ecosystem.
noun
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A member of an ethnic group from the Congo.
proper noun
- 1
The language of the Mono people of the Congo.
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A town in Ontario.
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An island of the Solomon Islands.
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A river in Togo.
Forms
- plural
- Monos
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