Moki

or Mo·qui

[ moh-kee ]

noun,plural Mo·kis, (especially collectively) Mo·ki.

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How to use Moki in a sentence

  • Why did the guides, if they belonged in the Moki towns, conduct Cardenas so far to show him a river which was so near?

    The Romance of the Colorado River | Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
  • The solution seems to be that he started from some locality other than the present Moki towns.

    The Romance of the Colorado River | Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
  • From Zuni he went to the Moki towns, then five in number, and possibly somewhat south of the present place.

    The Romance of the Colorado River | Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
  • These people had told him about the distance to Moki and the nature of the intervening region.

    The Romance of the Colorado River | Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
  • On the following day the same ceremony was performed on a larger scale at Walpi, the easternmost of the Moki villages.

British Dictionary definitions for moki

moki

/ (ˈməʊkɪ) /


nounplural mokis or moki
  1. either of two edible sea fish of New Zealand, the blue cod (Percis colias) or the bastard trumpeter (Latridopsis ciliaris)

Origin of moki

1
Māori

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