pembina

noun

1. Squashberry, lowbush cranberry (Viburnum edule).

2. One of the edible berries of this plant, from which jam may be produced.

   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.

Where it comes from

Likely from Canadian French pembina, pimbina, from Cree nîpiminâna or Ojibwe niibiminaa, an earlier form of aniibimin (“high-bush cranberry”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry pembina (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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