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Wahoo

name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A ghost town in California.
  2. 2
    An unincorporated community in Florida.
  3. 3
    A city, the county seat of Saunders County, Nebraska.
  4. 4
    An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
Noun
  1. 1
    Acanthocybium solandri, a tropical and subtropical game fish.
  2. 2
    The winged elm, Ulmus alata. Southern-US
  3. 3
    Euonymus atropurpureus, an eastern burning bush.
  4. 4
    large fast-moving predacious food and game fish; found worldwide wordnet
  5. 5
    deciduous shrub having purple capsules enclosing scarlet seeds wordnet
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  1. 6
    upright deciduous plant with crimson pods and seeds; the eastern United States from New York to Florida and Texas wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Perhaps from Wahoo, an obsolete spelling of Oahu, where the fish is found.

Etymology 2

From Creek uhawhu.

Etymology 3

From a Dakota word, the first element of which is cognate to Lakota waŋ (“arrow”).

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