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English Dictionary: inca by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Inca
n
  1. a ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family)
  2. a member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru
    Synonym(s): Inca, Inka, Incan
  3. the small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s
    Synonym(s): Inca, Inka
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Inca \In"ca\, n.
      (a) An emperor or monarch of Peru before, or at the time of,
            the Spanish conquest; any member of this royal dynasty,
            reputed to have been descendants of the sun.
      (b) pl. The people governed by the Incas, now represented by
            the Quichua tribe.
  
      {Inca dove} (Zo[94]l.), a small dove ({Scardafella inca}),
            native of Arizona, Lower California, and Mexico.
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