1. Abnaki or Abenakiboth: ăbnä´kē [ key], Native North Americans of the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages)

2. Abnaki or Abenaki (both: ăbnä`kē), Native North Americans of the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages Native American languages, languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants