— Senecan , adj.
/sen"i keuh/ , n. , pl. Senecas , ( esp. collectively ) Seneca for 1.
1. a member of the largest tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy of North American Indians, formerly inhabiting western New York and being conspicuous in the wars south and west of Lake Erie.
2. an Iroquoian language of the Seneca, Onondaga, and Cayuga tribes.
[ Sennecaas, etc., orig. applied to the Oneida and, more generally, to all the Upper Iroquois (as opposed to the Mohawk), prob. ]
/sen"i keuh/ , n.
Lucius Annaeus /euh nee'euhs/ , c4 B.C. -A.D. 65, Roman philosopher and writer of tragedies.