La|man|ite

La|man|ite
La|man|ite «LAY muh nyt», noun.
one of the ancient Hebrew ancestors of the American Indians according to the Book of Mormon.
[< Laman, son of Lehi, a Hebrew prophet who supposedly led a group of people to America in the 600's B.C.]

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