Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun penobscot

2 senses of penobscot

Sense 1
Penobscot -- (a member of the Algonquian people belonging to the Abnaki confederacy and living in the Penobscot valley in northern Maine)
       => 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)

Sense 2
Penobscot, Penobscot River -- (a river in central Maine flowing into Penobscot Bay)
       INSTANCE OF=> river -- (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); "the river was navigable for 50 miles")