In·ca /ˈɪŋkə/
印加人[南美洲祕魯土著種族]
In·ca n. (a) An emperor or monarch of Peru before, or at the time of, the Spanish conquest; any member of this royal dynasty, reputed to have been descendants of the sun. (b) pl. The people governed by the Incas, now represented by the Quichua tribe.
Inca dove Zool., a small dove (Scardafella inca), native of Arizona, Lower California, and Mexico.
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Inca
n 1: a ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family)
2: a member of the small group of Quechuan people living in the
Cuzco valley in Peru who established hegemony over their
neighbors to create the great Inca empire that lasted from
about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s
[syn: Inka, Incan]