Word.ws English Dictionary

yoncopin

yoncopin noun: nelumbo lutea, the American lotus, the water chinkapin.

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 yoncopin

pluralyoncopins
alternative formyancopin
alternative formyankapin

Origin of yoncopin

Probably related to wankapin.

Questions about yoncopin

What does yoncopin mean?
Yoncopin means nelumbo lutea, the American lotus, the water chinkapin.
What part of speech is yoncopin?
Yoncopin is a noun.
What is the plural of yoncopin?
The plural of yoncopin is yoncopins.

Words near yoncopin in the dictionary

  1. Yonan
  2. Yonans
  3. Yoncalla
  4. Yonce
  5. Yonces
  6. yoncopin
  7. yoncopins
  8. yond
  9. yonder
  10. yonderly
  11. yondermost

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “yoncopin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/yoncopin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.