any of several dialectally related North American Indian peoples speaking a Penutian language and originally living in an area stretching from the ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/147
[n] - a member of a North American Indian people living in coastal California between Monterey and San Francisco Bay 2. [n] - a Penutian language spoken by the Costanoan people Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=Costanoan
a family of eight languages, now extinct, spoken by American Indian peoples of coastal California: part of the Penutian stock. · any of the speakers of these languages, who formerly inhabited the coast and adjacent river valleys from San Francisco Bay south to Monterey Bay and Point Sur. Found on https://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/costanoan