Algonquin
[æl'gɔŋkwin]
n.
尔冈琴族(语, )



algonquin
[ noun ]

1. 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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2. family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains

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[ adj ]

1. of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language

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Algonquin \Al*gon"quin\, Algonkin \Al*gon"kin\, n.
One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many
distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern
and eastern part of North America. The name was originally
applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St.
Lawrence.
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