Penobscot (redirected from Penobscot Indians)

Pe·nob·scot  (p-nbskt, -skt)

n. pl. Penobscot or Pe·nob·scots

1.

a. A Native American people inhabiting Penobscot Bay and the Penobscot River valley in Maine. The Penobscot, who joined the Abenaki confederacy in the mid-18th century, are represented in the Maine legislature by a nonvoting delegate.

b. A member of this people.

2. The Algonquian language of the Penobscot, a dialect of Eastern Abenaki.

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[From a Penobscot place name.]

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Pe·nobscot adj.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Penobscot - a member of the Algonquian people belonging to the Abnaki confederacy and living in the Penobscot valley in northern Maine 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
	2.	Penobscot - a river in central Maine flowing into Penobscot Bay Penobscot River Maine, ME, Pine Tree State - a state in New England