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Me·nom·i·nee

(mə-nŏm′ə-nē)

n. pl. Menominee or Me·nom·i·nees

1. A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting an area along the Menominee River, with a present-day population in northeast Wisconsin.

2. The Algonquian language of this people.

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Noun	1.	Menominee - a member of the federally recognized tribe of Algonquian people living on a reservation in central Wisconsin Menomini Algonquian, Algonquin - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
	2.	Menominee - the Algonquian language spoken by the Menomini Menomini Algonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains

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