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sahihêeraha river tobacco, wild tobacco
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #5239 | revised Oct 06 2015
sahihêeraha • N • river tobacco, wild tobacco
Literally: 'downslope tobacco'
| Derivation: | sa' ihêer-aha-a |
| downhill smoke-ESS-DEVERB |
Source: JPH pla 06:556; Tobacco Among the Karuk Indians III.4, 46:21
Note: applied only to the wild, self-sown tobacco