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PENOBSCOT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A river in central Maine flowing into Penobscot Bay
Synonyms:
Penobscot; Penobscot River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Penobscot" is a part of...):
Maine; ME; Me.; Pine Tree State (a state in New England)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A member of the Algonquian people belonging to the Abnaki confederacy and living in the Penobscot valley in northern Maine
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Penobscot" is a kind of...):
Algonquian; Algonquin (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast)
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