catawba
英 [kə'tɔ:bə]
美
- n. 卡托巴语；卡托巴人
英英释义
- 1. a member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Carolinas
- 2. slip-skin reddish American table grape
- 3. the Siouan language spoken by the Catawba people
英文词源
- Catawba (n.)
- type of American grape, 1857, the name is that of a river in South Carolina, U.S., where the grape was found. The river is named for the Katahba Indian group and language (Siouan), from katapu "fork of a stream," itself a Muskogean loan-word.