wampee

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Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 黃皮 / 黄皮 (wong4 pei4-2, “wampee”, literally “yellow skin”).

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wampee (plural wampees)

  1. A tree, Clausena lansium, cultivated in China and the East Indies.
  2. The fruit of this tree.
  3. (proscribed) Pontederia species, especially Pontederia cordata. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
    Synonyms: pickerel weed, pickerel rush
    • 1914, American Game Protective Association, Bulletin, page 20:
      […] bulrushes, nut grass, corn grass, switch grass, and the wampees (Pontederia and Peltandra).
    • 1920, American Swineherd: Published Monthly in the Interests of Swine Raising, page 31:
      Wampee is the Indian name for the tubers of certain swamp plants, […] […] (Pontederia cordata), which occurs in swamps from Nova Scotia to Minnesota and southward to Texas and […] the success they have obtained in hog raising by utilizing the native wampees suggests the possibility of developing a type of agriculture on the old rice lands in which not only native wampees but various other swamp tuberous plants cultivated in Japan […]
    • 2005, H. Peter Loewer, Peter Loewer, Native Perennials for the Southeast, page 155:
      Pontederia cordata, the pickerel weed, is a member of a small group of aquatic plants usually found in warmer regions of the world. Other common names include dog tongues and wampees. I don't know what the reference to dog tongue is, but the connection with wampees could be the similarity between the seeded pulp of the Chinese […]

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