Noun: pemican pe-mi-kun
Usage: N. Amer, rare (elsewhere: pemmican)
Usage: N. Amer, rare (elsewhere: pemmican)
- Dried meat pounded into powder and mixed with melted fat, traditionally made by North American Indigenous peoples
"Explorers often carried pemican as a high-energy food source";
- pemmican [N. Amer]
Derived forms: pemicans
Type of: meat
Encyclopedia: Pemican