kinnikinnick

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The search for kinnikinnick was not, however, her real reason for wishing to see Carver.

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  1. noun A preparation made from dried leaves, bark, and sometimes tobacco and smoked especially by certain Native American peoples.
  2. noun See bearberry.

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  • The search for kinnikinnick was not, however, her real reason for wishing to see Carver. —  Virginia of Elk Creek Valley
  • Had it not been for her eagerness to find more and better kinnikinnick, and her knowledge that the homesteader's cabin was very near, she would have been frightened. —  Virginia of Elk Creek Valley
  • Clover gathered a great mat of green scarlet-berried vine like glorified cranberry, which Dr. Hope told her was the famous kinnikinnick, and was just remarking on the cool water-sounds which filled the place, when all of a sudden these sounds seemed to grow angry, the defile of precipices turned a frowning blue, and looking up they saw a great thunder-cloud gathering overhead We must run," cried Dr. Hope, and down they flew, racing at full speed along the long flights of steps and the plank walks, which echoed to the sound of their flying feet. —  Clover
  • The Indians call it kinnikinnick, and smoke it in their pipes. —  Composition-Rhetoric
  • But kinnikinnick is the best,--dainty, sturdy, indefatigable kinnikinnick, green and glossy all the year round, lovely at Christmas and lovely among flowers at midsummer, as content and thrifty on bare, rocky hillsides as in grassy nooks, growing in long, trailing wreaths, five feet long, or in tangled mats, five feet across, as the rock or the valley may need, and living bravely many weeks without water, to make a house beautiful. —  Composition-Rhetoric
 

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  1. Unami kələkkəníikkan, item for mixing in, kinnikinnick.
 

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