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Petuns

Petuns is the plural of Petun.

Meaning of Petun

Noun

Petun (plural Petuns or Petun)

  1. (historical) A member of the Iroquoian "tobacco people", or Tionontati, a First Nation located on the southwest edge of the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron, west of the Huron territory in Southern Ontario.
    • During the 1650s, the Senecas, Cayugas, and Onondagas expanded their war against the Hurons to include the Petuns, Neutrals, and Eries, in part because these Indian nations offered asylum to refugee bands of Hurons, but also because ...2006, Daniel P. Barr, Unconquered: The Iroquois League at War in Colonial America, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 50

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Questions about Petuns

What is Petuns the plural of?
Petuns is the plural of Petun.

Words near Petuns in the dictionary

  1. petunias
  2. petunidin
  3. petunidins
  4. petuning
  5. petunioside
  6. Petuns
  7. petunse
  8. petunses
  9. petuntse
  10. petuntses
  11. petuntze

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