pembina
See also: Pembina
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Likely from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "Canadian French" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF., pimbina, from Cree nîpiminâna or Ojibwe niibiminaa, an earlier form of aniibimin (“high-bush cranberry”).
Noun
pembina (plural pembinas)
- Viburnum edule, the squashberry, the lowbush cranberry.
- One of the edible berries of this plant, from which jam may be produced.
- 1922, Melvin Randolph Gilmore, Prairie Smoke, page 25:
- And so, from that time, whenever a woman went out to gather June berries or wild cherries, or raspberries, or wild plums or pembinas or tipsin, or wild rice; or to their cultivated fields to gather corn or beans, she was not obliged to carry the load home.