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Algonquian Etymologies

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  1. Abnaki
    a member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec
  2. Algonkian
    a member of a North American Indian people in the Ottawa river valley of Ontario and Quebec
  3. carcajou
    stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal
  4. caribou
    Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes
  5. caucus
    meet to select a candidate or promote a policy
  6. chinquapin
    small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut
  7. chipmunk
    a burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia
  8. cohosh
    a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries
  9. cushaw
    plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds
  10. firewater
    any strong spirits (such as strong whisky or rum)
  11. hackmatack
    poplar of northeastern North America with broad heart-shaped leaves
  12. hominy
    hulled corn with the bran and germ removed
  13. Illinois
    a midwestern state in north-central United States
  14. kinkajou
    arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail
  15. menhaden
    shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer
  16. Michigan
    a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
  17. Mississippi
    a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico
  18. moccasin
    soft leather shoe; originally worn by Native Americans
  19. mohawk
    haircut in which the head is shaved except for a band of hair down the middle of the scalp
  20. moose
    large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America
  21. muskellunge
    flesh of very large North American pike; a game fish
  22. muskrat
    beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur
  23. musquash
    beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur
  24. opossum
    nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America
  25. Ottawa
    the capital of Canada
  26. pecan
    tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts
  27. pekan
    large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal
  28. persimmon
    any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros
  29. pogy
    money received from the state
  30. poke
    thrust abruptly
  31. pone
    cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried
  32. powwow
    a council of or with Native Americans
  33. puccoon
    perennial plant of eastern North America having hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment
  34. pung
    a one-horse sleigh consisting of a box on runners
  35. raccoon
    an omnivorous nocturnal mammal native to North America and Central America
  36. Roanoke
    a city in southwestern Virginia
  37. sea-poose
    the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore
  38. skunk
    American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
  39. squaw
    an American Indian woman
  40. succotash
    fresh corn and lima beans with butter or cream
  41. terrapin
    any of various edible North American web-footed turtles living in fresh or brackish water
  42. toboggan
    a long narrow sled without runners
  43. tomahawk
    weapon consisting of a fighting ax
  44. tuckahoe
    perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries
  45. tucket
    (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments
  46. wampee
    American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds
  47. wapiti
    one of the largest species of deer in North America
  48. Wisconsin
    a midwestern state in north central United States
Created on 五月 2, 2010

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