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CONOY
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• CONOY (noun)
The noun CONOY has 1 sense:
1. a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in Maryland between Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac river; allies of the Nanticoke people
Familiarity information: CONOY used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of an Algonquian people formerly living in Maryland between Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac river; allies of the Nanticoke people
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Conoy" is a kind of...):
Algonquian; Algonquin (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast)
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