PENUTIAN

• PENUTIAN (noun)
  The noun PENUTIAN has 2 senses:

1. a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California
2. a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages

  Familiarity information: PENUTIAN used as a noun is rare.

• PENUTIAN (noun)

Meaning:

A family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Penutian" is a kind of...):

American Indian; American-Indian language; Amerind; Amerindian language; Indian (any of the languages spoken by Amerindians)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Penutian"):

Copehan (a group of Penutian languages spoken to the west of the Sacramento river)

Tsimshian (a Penutian language spoken by the Tsimshian)

Takelma; Takilman (a Penutian language spoken by the Takelma)

Sahaptin; Shahaptian (a Penutian language spoken by the Shahaptian)

Kusan (a Penutian language spoken by the Kusan)

Kalapooian; Kalapuyan (a Penutian language spoken by the Kalapuya)

Chinook; Chinookan (a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook)

Maidu; Pujunan (a Penutian language spoken by the Maidu)

Miwok; Moquelumnan (a Penutian language spoken by the Miwok)

Mariposan; Yokuts (a Penutian language spoken by the Yokuts in the San Joaquin Valley)

Costanoan (a Penutian language spoken by the Costanoan)

Meaning:

A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Penutian" is a kind of...):

American Indian; Indian; Red Indian (a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Penutian"):

Sahaptin; Sahaptino; Shahaptian (a member of a North American Indian people who lived in Oregon along the Columbia river and its tributaries in Washington and northern Idaho)

Takelma (a member of a North American Indian people of southwestern Oregon)

Tsimshian (a member of a Penutian people who lived on rivers and a sound in British Columbia)

Wintun (a member of a North American Indian people living in the Sacramento valley in California)

Patwin (a member of the North American Indian people living in the Sacramento valley in California)

Miwok (a member of the North American Indian people living in the central Sierra Nevada in California)

Maidu (a member of a North American Indian people living east of the Sacramento river in California)

Kusan; Calapooya; Calapuya; Kalapooia; Kalapuya (a member of the North American Indian people of Oregon)

Costanoan (a member of a North American Indian people living in coastal California between Monterey and San Francisco Bay)

Chinook (a member of an important North American Indian people who controlled the mouth of the Columbia river; they were organized into settlements rather than tribes)

Yokuts (a member of the North American Indian people of the San Joaquin Valley)