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Noun: pemican  pe-mi-kun
Usage: N. Amer, rare (elsewhere: pemmican)
  1. 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