Menominis

Variant of Menomini

Menomini definition

☆ Me·nomi·ni (mə näm′ə nē′)

noun pl. Menominis -·nis′ or Menomini -·ni′

  1. a member of a North American Indian people now living in Wisconsin and formerly living also in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
  2. the Algonquian language of this people

Etymology: Ojibwa manoominii, lit., person of the wild rice

Also sp. Menominee Me·nom′i·nee′

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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