English Explanatory Dictionary

water chinquapin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An American lotus (Nelumbo lutea), an aquatic plant found from Minnesota and Oklahoma to islands if the Caribbean.
  2. The edible seed of this plant.

Word forms

water chinquapin water chinquapins

Etymology

From water + chinquapin. The seeds are used for food like the nuts of the chinquapin.

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