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As⋅sin⋅i⋅boine

  [uh-sin-uh-boin]
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–noun
1. a river in S Canada, flowing S and E from SE Saskatchewan into the Red River in S Manitoba. 450 mi. (725 km) long.
2. Mount, a mountain in E British Columbia, Canada, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, on the Alberta border and the Continental Divide. 11,870 ft. (3618 m).
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As·sin·i·boin also As·sin·i·boine   (ə-sĭn'ə-boin')   
n.   pl. Assiniboin or As·sin·i·boins also Assiniboine or As·sin·i·boines

    1. A Native American people formerly inhabiting southern Manitoba, now located in Montana, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. The Assiniboin became nomadic buffalo hunters after migrating to the northern Great Plains in the 18th century.

    2. A member of this people.

  2. The Siouan language of the Assiniboin.


[French Assiniboine, of Ojibwa origin.]
As·sin'i·boin' adj.
Assiniboine  
A river of south-central Canada rising in southern Saskatchewan and flowing about 949 km (590 mi) generally eastward to the Red River at Winnipeg, Manitoba. Its valley is one of Canada's leading wheat-growing areas.
Assiniboine, Mount  
A mountain, 3,620.4 m (11,870 ft) high, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains on the Alberta-British Columbia border near Banff.
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