kinnikinnick

American  

[kin-i-kuh-nik] / ˌkɪn ɪ kəˈnɪk /

Also kinnikinnic,

noun

1. a mixture of bark, dried leaves, and sometimes tobacco, formerly smoked by the Indians and pioneers in the Ohio valley.

2. any of various plants used in this mixture, especially the common bearberry, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, of the heath family.

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kinnikinnick British  

/ ˌkɪnɪkɪˈnɪk /

noun

1. the dried leaves and bark of certain plants, sometimes with tobacco added, formerly smoked by some North American Indians

2. any of the plants used for such a preparation, such as the sumach Rhus glabra

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Etymology

Origin of kinnikinnick

1790–1800; earlier killikinnick, etc., < Unami Delaware kələk˙əní˙k˙an literally, admixture, derivative of Proto-Algonquian *keleken- mix (it) with something different by hand

Example Sentences

Kinnikinnick Farm, located just south of the Wisconsin border in Illinois, tried out the variety and has been growing them ever since, he says.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2022

Provatas, his right hand, worked the phones until she found a new supplier, a Canadian company called Kinnikinnick that specializes in allergen-free baked goods.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2021

Gerard Haines, 48, of Wyoming, Minn., who manufactures construction equipment, said that after wearing felt-bottomed soles for almost 20 years in the Brule and Kinnikinnick Rivers, he switched last spring.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2010

We arrived at Kinnikinnick Farm in Caledonia, Ill., in the late morning after skipping breakfast.

From Washington Post

Supper over, each traveller lights his pipe of fragrant "Honey-Dew," or still more fragrant "Kinnikinnick"; and the evening is most likely whiled away in pleasant talk and narrative of "moving accidents" by field and forest.

From Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 by Various