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- a member of a group of American Indian peoples of Chile and adjacent parts of Argentina, of which the only group which has a surviving cultural identity is the Mapuche阿劳坎人（美洲印第安人的一分支, 分布在智利和阿根廷的邻近地区, 目前惟一有文化独立性的只有马普切人）。
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- mass noun the language of this people, constituting a distinct language family sometimes linked to Penutian阿劳坎语（佩纽蒂诸语的远亲）。
- relating to or denoting this people or their language（与）阿劳坎人（有关）的, （与）阿劳坎语（有关）的。参见
M APUCHE.
词源
from Spanish Araucania, a region in Chile， +-AN.