Wampee
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /wɒmˈpiː/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Wampee is a noun meaning A tree, Clausena lansium, cultivated in China and the East Indies.
Meaning
A tree, Clausena lansium, cultivated in China and the East Indies.
More Meanings
- The fruit of this tree.
- Pontederia species, especially Pontederia cordata.
Example Sentences
[…] bulrushes, nut grass, corn grass, switch grass, and the wampees (Pontederia and Peltandra).
Pontederia cordata, the pickerel weed, is a member of a small group of aquatic plants usually found in warmer regions of the world. Other common names include dog tongues and wampees. I don't know what the reference to dog tongue is, but the connection with wampees could be the similarity between the seeded pulp of the Chinese […]
Wampee is the Indian name for the tubers of certain swamp plants, […] […] (Pontederia cordata), which occurs in swamps from Nova Scotia to Minnesota and southward to Texas and […] the success they have obtained in hog raising by utilizing the native wampees suggests the possibility of developing a type of agriculture on the old rice lands in which not only native wampees but various other swamp tuberous plants cultivated in Japan […]
Word Forms
- wampees
- wampi
Synonyms for wampee
Depending on context, synonyms include pickerelweed.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pickerelweed, wampi, chaulmoogra, camwood, whangee, weenong.
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