pemmican
英 ['pemɪk(ə)n]
美['pɛmɪkən]
- n. 摘要，要旨；干肉饼（北美印地安人的一种主要食品）
英英释义
- 1. lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians
英文词源
- pemmican (n.)
- 1791, from Cree (Algonquian) /pimihka:n/ from /pimihke:w/ "he makes grease," from pimiy "grease, fat." Lean meat, dried, pounded and mixed with congealed fat and ground berries and formed into cakes used on long journeys. Also used figuratively for "extremely condensed thought or matter."