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Noun: pemmican  pe-mu-kun
Usage: N. Amer
  1. Dried meat pounded into powder and mixed with melted fat, traditionally made by North American Indigenous peoples
    "Explorers often carried pemmican as a high-energy food source";
    - pemican [N. Amer, rare]

Derived forms: pemmicans

Type of: meat

Encyclopedia: Pemmican