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chantinihtunvêech a plant, pepper-grass
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lexicon ID #1082 | revised Oct 08 2014
chantinihtunvêech • N • a plant, pepper-grass Lepidium virginicum (Schenck and Gifford, no. 100). Variant: chantinihtunvêechas.
Literally: 'small ticks'
| Derivation: | chantírih-tunvêech | (= chantírih túnviiv-ach) |
| tick-small.(pl.) | (= tick children-DIM) |
Source: WB 277.1, p.330