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mojave
/moʊˈhɑvi/
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What does mojave mean?
noun
- Alternative form of Mohave.
proper noun
- A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
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/moʊˈhɑvi/
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Fine specimens of yucca grow on the Mojave desert in California that are large and numerous enough to form a straggling forest.
After they marry Mojave girls tattoo the chin with vertical blue lines; and when an Eskimo wife has her face tattooed with lamp-black she is regarded as a matron in society.
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Other possible sites not located in New Mexico were: an Army training area north of Blythe, California, in the Mojave Desert; San Nicolas Island (one of the Channel Islands) off the coast of Southern California; and on Padre Island south of Corpus Christi, Texas, in the Gulf of Mexico.