pembina

See also: Pembina

English

Alternative forms

• pimbina

Etymology

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

Noun

pembina (plural pembinas)

1. Viburnum edule, the squashberry, the lowbush cranberry.
2. One of the edible berries of this plant, from which jam may be produced.
   • 1922, Melvin Randolph Gilmore, Prairie Smoke, page 25:

     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.