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Penobscot

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Noun

1. penobscot

a member of the Algonquian people belonging to the Abnaki confederacy and living in the Penobscot valley in northern Maine

2. penobscot, penobscot river

a river in central Maine flowing into Penobscot Bay

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Penobscot

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noun
1. Word forms: plural Peˈnobˌscots or Peˈnobˌscot
a member of a North American Indian people living esp. in Maine
2. 
the Algonquian language of this people, a variety of Abenaki
adjective
3. 
of the Penobscots or their language or culture
river in central Me., flowing south into an arm (Penobscot Bay) of the Atlantic: c. 350 mi (563 km)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Penobscot

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n. pl. Penobscot or Pe·nob·scots
1. A member of a Native American people inhabiting Penobscot Bay and the Penobscot River valley in Maine. The Penobscot, who joined the Abenaki confederacy in the mid-1700s, are represented in the Maine legislature by a nonvoting delegate.
2. The Algonquian language of the Penobscot, a dialect of Eastern Abenaki.

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