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water chinquapins

water chinquapins is the plural of water chinquapin.

Meaning of water chinquapin

Noun

water chinquapin (plural water chinquapins)

  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.

Questions about water chinquapins

What is water chinquapins the plural of?
Water chinquapins is the plural of water chinquapin.

Words near water chinquapins in the dictionary

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  3. water chicken
  4. water chickens
  5. water chinquapin
  6. water chinquapins
  7. water clock
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  9. water closet
  10. water closets
  11. water clover

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