kinnikinik Various spellings [< Algonk.: Cree or Ojibwa "that which is mixed"] DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
1 n.
a smoking mixture varying as to ingredients from tribe to tribe and place to place, but including bearberry or sumac leaves, the inner bark of red-osier dogwood and, often, tobacco.
See also: Indian tobacco (def. 2) red-osier dogwood
2 n.
the bearberry, especially its leaves as used for smoking.
See also: bearberry Yukon holly
3 n.
certain other shrubs from which a smoking mixture is made, such as the red-osier dogwood.
See also: red-osier dogwood