Definition of "Unakas"

Unakas

/juˈneɪkəz/

proper noun
1. A mountain range in the southern Appalachians, on the border between Tennessee and North Carolina; since 1932 defined as the northern segment (north of the Little Tennessee River) of a range the southern segment of which is known as the Unicois (historically the two names sometimes interchangeably designated the whole range).
noun
1. plural of Unaka
  Quotations
  When the band ran out of tobacco, Tah-cung-tees-kee proposed they replenish their supply by killing a few Unakas.
  1989 July 1, Thurman Wilkins, Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People, University of Oklahoma Press, page 22