yanquapin

Other forms of yanquapin

plural

yanquapins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about yanquapin

What does yanquapin mean?

yanquapin means "water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds".

How many syllables are in yanquapin?

yanquapin has 4 syllables and divides as y-anq-ua-pin under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for yanquapin?

Close synonyms include water chinquapin, American lotus, 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 yanquapin a common word?

yanquapin is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.