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A linguistic family or stock of North American Indians, comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho into Mexico. In a restricted sense the name is applied especially to the Snakes, the most northern of t…

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  1. n. pl. A linguistic family or stock of North American Indians, comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho into Mexico. In a restricted sense the name is applied especially to the Snakes, the most northern of the tribes.
  2. A linguistic family or stock of North American Indians, comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho into Mexico. In a restricted sense the name is applied especially to the Snakes, the most northern of the tribes.
  3. A linguistic family or stock of North American Indians,comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho intoMexico. In a restricted sense the name is applied especially to theSnakes, the most northern of the tribes.
  4. -s form of shoshone n. a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States n. the language spoken by the Shoshone (belonging to the Uto-Aztecan family)