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noun
A tree, Clausena lansium, cultivated in China and the East Indies.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The fruit of this tree.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Pontederia species, especially Pontederia cordata.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: pickerel weed, pickerel rush
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noun
American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pickerelweed, pickerel weed, Pontederia cordata
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: aquatic plant, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant
History
Borrowed from Cantonese 黃皮 /黄皮 (wong4 pei4−2, “wampee”, literally “yellow skin”).
Perhaps from a Native American language of the Carolinas such as Carolina Algonquian. If the name was originally applied to a white variety, it could be from the Algqonian root for "white": compare Massachusett wompi (“white”), whence English wamp and wampum.
Across languages
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
