Yaqui Definition

yäkē
yaquis
noun
A member of a North American Indian people living in Sonora, Mexico.
Webster's New World
The Uto-Aztecan language of this people.
Webster's New World

Origin of Yaqui

  • Spanish from Yaqui hiaki

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Yaqui Sentence Examples

  • In this connexion Yaqui tells a curious story of the opening of one of the tombs by the caliph, which in spite of fabulous incidents, recalling the legend of Roderic the Goth, shows some traces of local knowledge.

  • The longest is the Yaqui, which has its source on the eastern side of the Sierra Tarahumare in Chihuahua and breaks through several ranges of the Sierra Madre before reaching the gulf near Guaymas.

  • The most eastern of these are known as the Sierra Tarahumare and Sierra del Durango, and the most western as the Sierra del Nazareno, Sierra Yaqui and Sierra Fuerte.

  • In 2003, Walker co-wrote the western novel Yaqui Gold with popular author Kirby Jonas.

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Words Starting With

YYA

Words Ending With

IUIQUI

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Yaqui

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