Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prepared leaves or bark of certain plants; -- used by the Indians of the Northwest for smoking, either mixed with tobacco or as a substitute for it. Also, a plant so used, as the osier cornel (
Cornus stolonijra ), and the bearberry (Arctostaphylus Uva-ursi ).
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- noun Alternative form of
kinnikinnick (mixture which is smoked). - noun Alternative form of
kinnikinnick (any of the plants used in this mixture).
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Examples
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The branches of the kinnikinic brush were red and smooth as lacquer on a saki bowl.
Main Street 2004
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The branches of the kinnikinic brush were red and smooth as lacquer on a saki bowl.
Main Street 1920
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The branches of the kinnikinic brush were red and smooth as lacquer on a saki bowl.
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918
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The air was suffocating to white lungs, what with human emanations combined with the thick fumes of kinnikinic.
The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest Hulbert Footner 1911
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Our tent was pitched in a little glade, which was but a few yards across, and carpeted thickly with the red kinnikinic berries, in their season beloved of bears, and from the leaves of which bush the Indians make a substitute for tobacco.
The Big-Horn Sheep 1896
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Tobacco and kinnikinic (a mixture of tobacco with shredded bark, leaves, etc (32)) were smoked.
The Siouan Indians 1882
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Orange lilies are plentiful, and handsome shining mats of the kinnikinic, sprinkled with bright scarlet berries.
Steep Trails John Muir 1876
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