Cayuga

US: (kā yo̅o̅′gə, kī-)

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

Ca•yu•ga  (kā yo̅o̅′gə, kī-), n., pl. -gas, (esp. collectively) -ga. 

1. a member of a tribe of North American Indians, the smallest tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy.
2. Language Varieties the dialect of the Seneca language spoken by the Cayuga.
3. Birds Also called Cayu′ga duck′. one of an American breed of domestic ducks having black plumage.

• a related form in another north, northern Iroquoian language)
• Cayuga *kayo·kwę, name of a 17th-century village; compare Cayuga kayokwęhó·nǫʔ Cayuga (people) (or
• 1735–45, American.