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pembina

pembina noun: squashberry, lowbush cranberry (Viburnum edule).

Noun (1)

pembina (plural pembinas)

  1. Squashberry, lowbush cranberry (Viburnum edule).
  2. One of the edible berries of this plant, from which jam may be produced.
    • And so, from that time, whenever a woman went out to gather June berries or wild cherries, or raspberries, or wild plums or pembinas or tipsin, or wild rice; or to their cultivated fields to gather corn or beans, she was not obliged to carry the load home.1922, Melvin Randolph Gilmore, Prairie Smoke, page 25

Noun (2) capitalized: Pembina

Pembina (plural Pembinas)

  1. A member of the Pembina Band of Chippewa Indians, a historical band of Chippewa (Ojibwe), originally living along the Red River of the North and its tributaries.

Proper noun capitalized: Pembina

Pembina

  1. A neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  2. A rural municipality (the Municipality of Pembina) in south Manitoba, Canada.
  3. A township in Mahnomen County, Minnesota, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Christian County, Missouri, United States.
  5. A minor city in Pembina County, North Dakota, United States, near the Canadian border.
  6. A river in Alberta, Canada.
  7. A river in Manitoba, Canada, and North Dakota, USA.

Forms of pembina

pluralpembinas
alternative formpimbina
pluralPembinas

Origin of pembina

Likely from Canadian French pembina, pimbina, from Cree nîpiminâna or Ojibwe niibiminaa, an earlier form of aniibimin (“high-bush cranberry”).

Words formed from pembina

Questions about pembina

What does pembina mean?
Pembina means squashberry, lowbush cranberry (Viburnum edule).
What part of speech is pembina?
Pembina can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of pembina?
The plural of pembina is pembinas.

Words near pembina in the dictionary

  1. Pemathang
  2. Pemba
  3. Pember
  4. Pembers
  5. Pemberton
  6. pembina
  7. Pembina County
  8. pembinas
  9. Pembleton
  10. Pembletons
  11. Pembrey

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