Inca

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


         [1913 Webster]
  
     {Inca dove} (Zool.), a small dove ({Scardafella inca}),
        native of Arizona, Lower California, and Mexico.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Inca
       n 1: a ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family)
       2: a member of the small group of Quechuan people living in the
          Cuzco valley in Peru who established hegemony over their
          neighbors to create the great Inca empire that lasted from
          about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s
          [syn: {Inka}, {Incan}]