What does "penobscot" mean?

One of a sovereign people indigenous to what is now Maritime Canada and the northeastern United States, particularly Maine.

What is a synonym for "penobscot"?

Common synonyms include: eastern abenaki, eastern abenaki, eastern abnaki, penobscot river.

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Noun

1
One of a sovereign people indigenous to what is now Maritime Canada and the northeastern United States, particularly Maine.
2
a member of the Algonquian people belonging to the Abnaki confederacy and living in the Penobscot valley in northern Maine wordnet

Proper Noun

1
An extinct Abenaki (Algonquian) language, spoken in parts of the northeastern United States and in Quebec, related to Western Abenaki.
2
A town in Hancock County, Maine, United States.