: the non-Guarani-Indian peoples of southern Brazil comprising a number of distinct but related groups
b
: a member of any such people
2
a
: a language of any Caingang people
b
: a language family of the Ge stock comprising the several Caingang languages
Word History
Etymology
Portuguese, of American Indian origin
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