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yunca


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Yunca  \Yun"ca\  (y[=oo][ng]"k[.a]),  n. 
  An  Indian  of  a  linguistic  stock  of  tribes  of  the  Peruvian 
  coast  who  had  a  developed  agricultural  civilization  at  the 
  advent  of  the  Spaniards,  before  which  they  had  been  conquered 
  by  the  Incas.  They  constructed  irrigation  canals  which  are 
  still  in  use  adorned  their  buildings  with  bas-reliefs  and 
  frescoes,  and  were  skilled  goldsmiths  and  silversmiths.  -- 
  {Yun"can},  a.