Clo|vis

Clo|vis
Clo|vis «KLOH vihs», adjective, noun.
–adj.
of, designating, or having to do with an extinct civilization of the Pleistocene in the southwestern United States, centered chiefly in what is now New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona: »

Clovis fluted stone points, weapons used by early American man, were found for the first time in direct association with remains of a mammoth in Arizona (Science News Letter).

–n.
the Clovis civilization.
[< Clovis, a city in New Mexico, the modern site]

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