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Wampee means A tree, Clausena lansium, cultivated in China and the East Indies..
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/wɒmˈpiː/ · noun
A tree, Clausena lansium, cultivated in China and the East Indies..
[…] bulrushes, nut grass, corn grass, switch grass, and the wampees (Pontederia and Peltandra).
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 […]
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 […]
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Wampee means A tree, Clausena lansium, cultivated in China and the East Indies..
Common synonyms include pickerel weed, pickerel rush, pickerelweed, pontederia cordata.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] bulrushes, nut grass, corn grass, switch grass, and the wampees (Pontederia and Peltandra).
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