| 单词 | kinnikinnick |
| 释义 | kinnikinnick in British English or kinnikinic or kinnikinick (ˌkɪnɪkɪˈnɪk) or killikinick noun 1. the dried leaves and bark of certain plants, sometimes with tobacco added, formerly smoked by some Native Americans 2. any of the plants used for such a preparation, such as the sumach Rhus glabra Word origin C18: from Algonquian, literally: that which is mixed; related to Natick kinukkinuk mixturekinnikinnick in American English (ˌkɪnɪkəˈnɪk) noun Also: kinnikinnic, kinnikinick, kinnikinic, kinnikinnik, killickinnic1. a mixture of bark, dried leaves, and sometimes tobacco, formerly smoked by the Native Americansand pioneers in the Ohio valley 2. any of various plants used in this mixture, esp. the common bearberry, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, of the heath family Word origin [1790–1800; earlier killikinnick, etc., ‹ Unami Delaware kələk˙əní˙k˙an lit., admixture, deriv. of Proto-Algonquian *keleken- mix (it) with something different by hand]This word is first recorded in the period 1790–1800. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cutout, echelon, methodology, silhouette, stereotype |
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