water chinquapin

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsAmerican lotusyanquapinNelumbo lutea

   Broaderwater lily

   Part ofNelumbo

   Partswater chinquapin
2. 2.

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

   Broaderedible seed

   Part ofwater chinquapin

Questions about water chinquapin

What does water chinquapin mean?

water chinquapin means "water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for water chinquapin?

Close synonyms include American lotus, yanquapin, Nelumbo lutea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is water chinquapin a common word?

water chinquapin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.