Usually means: Ancient Mesoamerican civilization with colossal heads.
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  1. Olmec, Olmec: Merriam-Webster
  2. Olmec: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Olmec: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Olmec: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Olmec: Vocabulary.com
  6. Olmec: Wordnik
  7. Olmec: Wiktionary
  8. Olmec: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Olmec: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Olmec: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. olmec: Dictionary.com
  12. Olmec: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Olmec: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Olmec: Rhymezone
  15. olmec: FreeDictionary.org
  16. olmec: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Olmec: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Olmec: Encyclopedia

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  1. olmec: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Olmec)

noun:  A member of an ancient pre-Columbian people living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in what are roughly the modern-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco.

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