Penobscot

/pəˈnɑbskət/

Other forms: Penobscots

Definitions of Penobscot

1. noun

   a river in central Maine flowing into Penobscot Bay
   synonyms: Penobscot River

   example of:

   river

   a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)
2. noun

   a member of the Algonquian people belonging to the Abnaki confederacy and living in the Penobscot valley in northern Maine
   type of:

   Algonquian, Algonquin

   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