pemican
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pem·mi·can
also pem·i·can (pĕm′ĭ-kən)n.
1. A food prepared by Native Americans from lean dried strips of meat pounded into paste, mixed with fat and berries, and pressed into small cakes.
2. A food made chiefly from beef, dried fruit, and suet, used as emergency rations.
[Cree pimihkān, from pimihkēw, he makes grease, makes pemmican, from Proto-Algonquian *pemihkēwa : *pemyi, grease + *-ehkē-, to make, gather.]
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Noun | 1. | pemican - lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians meat - the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food |
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