pembina

[pem-buh-nuh, pem-bee-]

noun

Canadian (chiefly the Prairie Provinces).

1. highbush cranberry.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pembina¹

1750–60; earlier panbina, pemine < Canadian French (now spelling pimbina ) < Cree ni·pimina·na, plural of ni·pimina·n, a derivative with -min- berry

Example Sentences

But Pembina said the freeze puts at risk a total of 91 projects at early development stages.

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The haul was found July 14 in a search of the truck at the Emerson port of entry in southern Manitoba, just north of the border crossing at Pembina, North Dakota, according to a joint statement released Thursday by the Canada Border Services Agency and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

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The group sought help from North Dakota’s Pembina County Sheriff’s Office, which supplied aid and then alerted U.S.

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The recently adjourned Legislature approved $6 million for a Pembina Gorge state campground, which will be within 1 mile of the the Pembina Gorge State Recreation Area’s trailhead, the Bismarck Tribune reported.

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“The Kittson County Sheriff’s Office notified Border Patrol Agents assigned to the Pembina and Warroad Stations that they witnessed multiple people walking south from the international border with Canada. Officers also noticed two cars in the area and stopped the vehicles. Border Patrol Agents arrived shortly afterwards and discovered 20 people that had just crossed the border illegally,” the report said.

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