Algonquin vs Penobscot

Penobscot vs Algonquin

Algonquin and Penobscot both are nouns.

Algonquin is an adjective but Penobscot is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Algonquin	Yes	Yes	No	No
Penobscot	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Penobscot is a hyponym of Algonquin; that is, Penobscot is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Algonquin:

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
Penobscot: a member of the Algonquian people belonging to the Abnaki confederacy and living in the Penobscot valley in northern Maine

Other hyponyms of Algonquin include Abenaki, Abnaki, Algonkian, Algonkin, Arapaho, Arapahoe, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Conoy, Cree, Delaware, Lenape, Fox, Illinois, Kickapoo, Malecite, Massachuset, Massachusetts, Menominee, Menomini, Miami, Micmac, Mikmaq, Mahican, Mohican, Nanticoke, Chippewa, Ojibwa, Ojibway, Ottawa, Pamlico, Passamaquody, Potawatomi, Powhatan, Sac, Sauk, Shawnee, Wampanoag.

Algonquin (noun)	Penobscot (noun)
family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains	a river in central Maine flowing into Penobscot Bay
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	a member of the Algonquian people belonging to the Abnaki confederacy and living in the Penobscot valley in northern Maine

Algonquin (adjective)	Penobscot (adjective)
of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language

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