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PEMMICAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pemmican mean?
• PEMMICAN (noun)
The noun PEMMICAN has 1 sense:
1. lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians
Familiarity information: PEMMICAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
pemican; pemmican
Hypernyms ("pemmican" is a kind of...):
meat (the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food)
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