Associations to the word «Tunguses»
Wiktionary
TUNGUS, noun. Any member of a group of roving Turanian tribes in Eastern Siberia and the Amoor valley, who speak Tungusic languages.
TUNGUS, proper noun. (dated) (possibly obsolete) The Evenki language.
Dictionary definition
TUNGUS, noun. A member of the Tungus speaking people of Mongolian race who are a nomadic people widely spread over eastern Siberia; related to the Manchu.
TUNGUS, noun. The Tungusic language of the Evenki in eastern Siberia.
Wise words
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and
nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar
words.