Pekan
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A fisher cat or fisher (Pekania pennanti, syn. Martes pennanti)
- 2 large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal wordnet
- 3 An American marten (Martes americana).
Etymology
From the Abenaki apanakes (“pine marten, Martes americana”), or a Penobscot cognate of it.