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mariposa
/ˌmæɹɪˈpoʊ.sə/
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What does mariposa mean?
noun
- A mariposa lily (Calochortus spp.).
- Former name of Yokuts (“a member of Native American group”).
proper noun
- A former municipality of Ontario, Canada, now part of the city of Kawartha Lakes.
More meanings (3)
proper noun
- A rural municipality of Saskatchewan, Canada.
- A census-designated place, the county seat of Mariposa County, California, United States.
- A town and capital of the Pampa Hermosa District in Satipo Province, Peru.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌmæɹɪˈpoʊ.sə/
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One of these lilies, the calochortus, several species of which are well known in California as the “Mariposa tulips,” has received great consideration at the hands of the Mormons, for to it hundreds of them owe their lives.
Thence I went to Mariposa County, and Colonel Fremont's mines, and made an interesting visit to "the Colonel," as he is called all over the country, and Mrs. Fremont, a heroine equal to either fortune, the salons of Paris and the drawing-rooms of New York and Washington, or the roughest life of the remote and wild mining regions of Mariposa,--with their fine family of spirited, clever children.