| 释义 |
Definition of pemmican in English: pemmicannoun ˈpɛmɪk(ə)nˈpɛməkən mass nounA pressed cake of pounded dried meat mixed to a paste with melted fat and other ingredients, originally made by North American Indians and later adapted by Arctic explorers. Example sentencesExamples - These slabs may have been used in the manufacture of pemmican, for pounding dried meat into a powder or for breaking bison bones.
- Having partaken heartily of frozen pemmican, I stuffed my pocket, bundled the rest into a bag on the sledge, and started off in high glee, stimulated in body and mind.
- They were mostly French Canadians, they drank lake water mixed with wine and ate nothing but buffalo pemmican, and they sang the land alive.
- It was also made into pemmican, a mixture of ground buffalo meat, service berries, and marrow grease.
- Native Americans once used the fruit to make pemmican, a type of meat jerky.
Origin From Cree pimecan, from pime 'fat'. Definition of pemmican in US English: pemmicannounˈpeməkənˈpɛməkən A paste of dried and pounded meat mixed with melted fat and other ingredients, originally made by North American Indians and later adapted by Arctic explorers. Example sentencesExamples - These slabs may have been used in the manufacture of pemmican, for pounding dried meat into a powder or for breaking bison bones.
- Having partaken heartily of frozen pemmican, I stuffed my pocket, bundled the rest into a bag on the sledge, and started off in high glee, stimulated in body and mind.
- They were mostly French Canadians, they drank lake water mixed with wine and ate nothing but buffalo pemmican, and they sang the land alive.
- It was also made into pemmican, a mixture of ground buffalo meat, service berries, and marrow grease.
- Native Americans once used the fruit to make pemmican, a type of meat jerky.
Origin From Cree pimecan, from pime ‘fat’. |