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kinnikinnic

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kin⋅ni⋅kin⋅nick

  [kin-i-kuh-nik]
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–noun
1. a mixture of bark, dried leaves, and sometimes tobacco, formerly smoked by the Indians and 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.
Also, kin⋅ni⋅kin⋅nic, kin⋅ni⋅ki⋅nick, kin⋅ni⋅ki⋅nic, kin⋅ni⋅kin⋅nik, killickinnic.

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
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kin·ni·kin·nick also kin·ni·kin·nic   (kĭn'ĭ-kĭ-nĭk')   
n.  

  1. A preparation made from dried leaves, bark, and sometimes tobacco and smoked especially by certain Native American peoples.

  2. See bearberry.


[Unami kələkkəníikkan, item for mixing in, kinnikinnick.]
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