| 词汇 | pemmican |
| 词源 | pemmican. Dried buffalo meat pounded into a powder and sometimes mixed with berries was the staple winter diet of many Indian tribes in the American West. It was called pemmi- can, from the Konestino Indian words pemis, “fat,” and egan, “substance.” |
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