Pronunciation: p ə - ' näb- ˌ skät, -sk ə t
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -scot or -scots
Etymology: earlier Panawamske, from Eastern Abenaki p α náw α hpskek, a village name, literally, where the rocks widen
Date: 1624
: a member of an American Indian people of the Penobscot River valley and Penobscot Bay region of Maine