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yankapin

yankapin is the alternative form of yoncopin.

Meaning of yoncopin

Noun

yoncopin (plural yoncopins)

  1. (US, dialectal, Mississippi) Nelumbo lutea, the American lotus, the water chinkapin.
    • […] she was as the wild yoncopin to the calla lily. Marjie knew how to dress. To-day, shaded by the buggy-top, in her dainty light blue lawn, with the soft pink of her cheeks and her clear white brow and throat, she was a most delicious thing […]1910, Margaret Hill McCarter, The Price of the Prairie

Forms of yankapin

pluralyankapins

Questions about yankapin

What is yankapin the alternative form of?
Yankapin is the alternative form of yoncopin.

Words near yankapin in the dictionary

  1. yank someone's chain
  2. yank someone's crank
  3. Yank tank
  4. Yank tanks
  5. Yankalilla
  6. yankapin
  7. yankapins
  8. Yanke
  9. yanked
  10. yanked around
  11. yanked off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yankapin (page history and authors); yoncopin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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