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tapasihêeraha people's tobacco, real tobacco
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #7641 | revised Oct 15 2015
tapasihêeraha • N • people's tobacco, real tobacco
Literally: 'real tobacco'
| Derivation: | tápas ihêer | (= tápas ihêer-a) |
| real smoke | (= real smoke-DEVERB) |
Source: Tobacco Among the Karuk Indians III.4, 46
Note: applied to tobacco that was sown by the people. Equivalent to arareehêeraha.