[…] bulrushes, nut grass, corn grass, switch grass, and the wampees (Pontederia and Peltandra).
Source: wiktionary
Wampee
//wɒmˈpiː//
Synonyms for "wampee" (6 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
Strong matches (1)
Related words (3)
Noun(3 words)
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12 translations across 5 languages.
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 黃皮 /黄皮 noun (fruit)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 黃皮 /黄皮 noun (fruit)
- 黃皮果 /黄皮果 noun (fruit)
French
2 entries- wampi noun (tree)
- wampi noun (fruit)
Portuguese
4 entries- clausena noun (tree)
- fruta do vampiro noun (fruit)
- vampiro noun (fruit)
- vampizeiro noun (tree)
Zhuang
3 entries- lwgmoed noun (fruit)
- makmaed noun (fruit)
- makmoed noun (fruit)
Sample sentences
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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 […]
Source: wiktionary
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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