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Water Chinquapin

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Noun

1. american lotus, nelumbo lutea, water chinquapin, yanquapin

water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds

2. water chinquapin

edible nutlike seeds of an American lotus having the flavor of a chinquapin

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Water Chinquapin

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noun
a North American aquatic plant, Nelumbo lutea, having large umbrella-shaped leaves, pale yellow flowers, and edible nutlike seeds: family Nelumbonaceae
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Water Chinquapin

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1. 
a perennial American waterlily (Nelumbo lutea) with large, emersed, umbrella-shaped leaves and yellow flowers
2. 
its edible fruit

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Water Chinquapin

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n.
The North American lotus (Nelumbo lutea).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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