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Gros Ventre

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Noun

1. gros ventre, hidatsa

a member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota

2. gros ventre, hidatsa

a Siouan language spoken by the Hidatsa

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Gros Ventre

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1. 
a member of a western group of the Arapaho, now living in Montana
: also called Gros Ventre of the Prairie
2. 
Hidatsa
: also called Gros Ventre of the Missouri

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Gros Ventre

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n. pl. Gros Ventre or Gros Ventres (vänt′)
1.
a. A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting the plains of northern Montana and southern Saskatchewan, with a present-day population in north central Montana.
b. The Algonquian language of the Atsina, dialectally related to Arapaho. Also called Atsina.
2. See Hidatsa.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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