Algonkian Synonyms

ăl-gŏngkē-ən
A member of a North American Indian people in the Ottawa river valley of Ontario and Quebec
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. algonkin
The Algonquian language spoken by the Algonkian
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. algonkin
Of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. algonquian
  2. algonquin

Algonkian Sentence Examples

  • He wrote Correlation Papers - Archaean and Algonkian (1892), Some Principles Controlling the Deposition of Ores (1901).

  • Prolerozoic (Algonkian) Systems.The Proterozoic group of rocks (called also Algonkian) includes all formations younger than the Archean and older than the Palaeozoic rocks.

  • The remainder of Finland is built up of the oldest known crystalline rocks belonging to the Archaeozoic or Algonkian period.

  • The geological history of the state covers the period from Algonkian to late Carboniferous time, after which there is a gap in the record until Tertiary time, except that there was apparently a temporary depression of the north-western and southwestern corners in the Cretaceous age.

  • Regarding now the outcrops of bed-rock, there are exposures of Algonkian (doubtful, and at most a mere patch on Pilot Knob), Archean, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, sub-Carboniferous and Carboniferous.