YANQUAPIN

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Meaning:

Water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds

Synonyms:

American lotus; Nelumbo lutea; water chinquapin; yanquapin

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("yanquapin" is a kind of...):

water lily (an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae)

Meronyms (parts of "yanquapin"):

water chinquapin (edible nutlike seeds of an American lotus having the flavor of a chinquapin)

Holonyms ("yanquapin" is a member of...):

genus Nelumbo; Nelumbo (sometimes placed in the family Nymphaeaceae: lotuses)