moqui Synonyms
Another word for moqui
• noun (Context 1)
A historical exonym for a member of the Hopi, an Indigenous Puebloan people of northeastern Arizona (often capitalized; now dated and superseded by Hopi).
"Nineteenth-century ethnographic accounts frequently referred to the Hopi villages using the older term hopi."
• adjective (Context 2)
Relating to the Hopi people of northeastern Arizona, their language, or their historical artifacts and geological formations (often capitalized; now chiefly historical).
"Geologists studied the iron oxide concretions known locally as hopi marbles in the Navajo Sandstone of southern Utah."
• noun (Context 3)
Any of several small, tailless South American hystricomorph rodents of the family Caviidae (especially of the genus Microcavia, the mountain cavies), native to arid and semi-arid regions of the Andes and southern South America.