arango

See also: aranĝo

English

Alternative forms

• rango

Etymology

Native name.

Noun

arango (plural arangos or arangoes)

1. A rough carnelian bead, formerly used in Africa as currency when buying slaves for the slave trade.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “arango”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Angora, Aragon, Argoan, angora, organa