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water chinquapin en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. An American lotus (Nelumbo lutea), an aquatic plant found from Minnesota and Oklahoma to islands if the Caribbean.
   • The woman is next instructed to gather ceremonially the roots of the water chinquapin (Nelumbo lutea) for food for her little ones. 1925, Francis La Flesche, The Osage Tribe: the Rite of Vigil, Washington: USGPO, page 195:
2. The edible seed of this plant.

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