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Tut·si
(to͞ot′sē) also Wa·tut·si (wä-) or Wa·tu·si (-to͞o′-)n. pl. Tutsi or Tut·sis also Watutsi or Wa·tut·sis or Watusi or Wa·tu·sis
A member of a Bantu-speaking people inhabiting Rwanda and Burundi.
[Kinyarwanda.]
Wa·tut·si
(wä-to͞ot′sē) also Wa·tu·si (wä-to͞o′sē)n. pl. Watutsi or Wa·tut·sis also Watusi or Wa·tu·sis
Variants of Tutsi.
[Kinyarwanda : wa-, pl. human prefix + -tutsi, Tutsi.]
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Watusi
(wəˈtuːzɪ) orWatutsi
n, pl -sis or -si
(Peoples) a member of a cattle-owning Negroid people of Rwanda and Burundi in Africa
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Tut•si
(ˈtut si)n., pl. -sis, (esp. collectively) -si.
a member of a tall-statured, traditionally pastoral people of the kingdoms W of Lake Victoria in E Africa: a ruling caste in these kingdoms and in the modern successor states of Rwanda until 1961 and Burundi up to the present.
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| Noun | 1. |  Watusi - a member of a Bantu speaking people living in Rwanda and BurundiBurundi, Republic of Burundi - a landlocked republic in east central Africa on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika Ruanda, Rwanda, Rwandese Republic - a landlocked republic in central Africa; formerly a German colony Bantu - a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa |
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