pemmican definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: lean dried ... with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians [syn: pemmican, pemican] Merriam Webster's also pemican noun Etymology: Cree pimihka ... Etymology: Cree pimecan f. pime fat Webster's 1913 Dictionary Pemmican Pem"mi*can, n. A treatise of much thought in little compass. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Pemmican Pem"mi*can, n. [Written also pemican.] 1. Among the ...