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PRONUNCIATION OF PEMICAN

pemican  [ˈpɛmɪkən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PEMICAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pemican is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PEMICAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

pemican

Pemmican

Pemmican is a concentrated mixture of fat and protein used as a nutritious food. The word comes from the Cree word pimîhkân, which itself is derived from the word pimî, "fat, grease". It was invented by the native peoples of North America. It was widely adopted as a high-energy food by Europeans involved in the fur trade and later by Arctic and Antarctic explorers, such as Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen. The specific ingredients used were usually whatever was available; the meat was often bison, moose, elk, or deer. Fruits such as cranberries and saskatoon berries were sometimes added. Cherries, currants, chokeberries and blueberries were also used, but almost exclusively in ceremonial and wedding pemmican.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PEMICAN


African
ˈæfrɪkən
American
əˈmɛrɪkən
bacon
ˈbeɪkən
Dominican
dəˈmɪnɪkən
hurricane
ˈhʌrɪkən
Jamaican
dʒəˈmeɪkən
lexicon
ˈlɛksɪkən
Macon
ˈmeɪkən
Mexican
ˈmɛksɪkən
mistaken
mɪˈsteɪkən
pelican
ˈpɛlɪkən
pemmican
ˈpɛmɪkən
republican
rɪˈpʌblɪkən
shaken
ˈʃeɪkən
silicon
ˈsɪlɪkən
stricken
ˈstrɪkən
synonymicon
ˌsɪnəˈnɪmɪkən
taken
ˈteɪkən
undertaken
ˌʌndəˈteɪkən
Vatican
ˈvætɪkən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PEMICAN

pelviform
pelvimeter
pelvimetry
pelvis
pelycosaur
Pemba
pembina
Pembroke
Pembroke table
Pembrokeshire
pemmican
pemoline
pemphigoid
pemphigous
pemphigus
pemphigus vulgaris
pemphix
pen
pen and ink
pen drive

WORDS THAT END LIKE PEMICAN

African-American
all-American
Anglican
Asian-American
barbican
Central American
Corsican
Costa Rican
East African
indican
Latin American
Mozambican
Native American
North American
Pan-American
publican
Puerto Rican
South African
South American
West African

Synonyms and antonyms of pemican in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pemican» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PEMICAN

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Translator English - Chinese

pemican
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pemican
570 millions of speakers

English

pemican
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pemican
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pemican
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

pemican
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pemican
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pemican
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pémican
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pemican
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

pemican
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

pemican
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

pemican
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pemican
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pemican
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pemican
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पेमिकॅन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kurutulmuş dövülmüş et
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pemican
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pemican
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

pemican
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pemican
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pemican
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pemican
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pemican
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pemican
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pemican

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PEMICAN»

The term «pemican» is used very little and occupies the 182.632 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PEMICAN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pemican

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PEMICAN»

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Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects ...
Other portions which are destined to be made into pimikehigan, or pemican, are exposed to an ardent heat, and thus become brittle, and easily reducible to small particles by the use of a flail ; the buffalo-hide answering the purpose of a ...
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, 1856
2
Cooking in America, 1590-1840
PEMICAN AND MARROW-FAT (CATLIN, 232)  It is made of buffalo meat dried very hard, and afterwards pounded in a large wooden mortar until it is made nearly as fine as sawdust, then packed in this dry state in bladders or sacks of skin ...
Trudy Eden, 2006
3
Historical and Statistical Information, Respecting the ...
Other portions which are destined to be made into pimikeldaan, or pemican, are exposed to an ardent heat, and thus become brittle, and easily reducible to small particles by the use of a flail ; the buffalo-hide answering the purpose of a ...
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, 1854
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The Indian Journals, 1859-62
At this time the hide is useless for robes, as the hair is thin and whitish, but they are useful for leather and pemican bags. This is the hunt for pemican meat. The second hunt goes out about Sept. i0. The hides are then fit for robes. They are bare ...
Lewis Henry Morgan, Leslie A. White, 1993
5
Surveying the Canadian Pacific: Memoir of a Railroad Pioneer
The game being preserved as pemican. I may as well state here that Pemican, as I found later on, is a very strengthening, and economical food, and is prepared in this way. The flesh of the Moose and Buffalo is freed from the bone, minced up ...
R. M. Rylatt, 1991
6
Report of the Committee Appointed by the Lords Commissioners ...
40 days' provisions, according to the following scale : — Lieut 1 lb. pemican ; ^ lb. pork ; £ lb. biscuit ; \ lb. flour or bread dust to M'Chntock's mix with pemican into a hot mess ; £ oz. tea ; \ oz. sugar ; 3 oz. tobacco lbs. ugges long. weekly; also, ...
Great Britain. Admiralty. Arctic Committee, 1852
7
Friends' Intelligencer
Our pemican is of very superior quality having been made under the personal superintendence of Dr. Kane. In our sledge parties we will be served much like the boy whose variety consisted in first, " mush and milk, then milk and musb," ...
‎1855
8
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
The boatmen preferred its internal application to the external one usually made of the famous capillary regenerator, and in less than two days devoured the whole of the precious ointment, spread upon the flour-cakes which, with pemican, form ...
‎1848
9
Flint chips, a guide to pre-historic archæology, as ...
8, is of the most simple form ; it is eight inches and a half long, six inches and a quarter broad, and stands four inches and a quarter high. bag of pemican only. Much meat is dried and not converted into pemican. It is cut into long strips, about a ...
Edward Thomas Stevens, 1870
10
The Eventful Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ship Resolute to the ...
Curry and Onion Powder, with a proportion of Salt, Yepper, and Patent Soup. As pemican (being a manufactured article for consumption) may not generally be known, I have thought it advisable, for the information of those ,who peruse these  ...
George Frederick McDougall, 2014

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PEMICAN»

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Caravan park owners receive £4m in benefits
These included Canvey Island Football Club and finance company Pemican. The Echo understands Jeff King has since stepped aside from the ... «Echo, Apr 15»

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