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PENOBSCOT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A river in central Maine flowing into Penobscot Bay

Synonyms:

Penobscot; Penobscot River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Penobscot" is a part of...):

Maine; ME; Me.; Pine Tree State (a state in New England)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of the Algonquian people belonging to the Abnaki confederacy and living in the Penobscot valley in northern Maine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Penobscot" is a kind of...):

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)

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