wampee

plural wampees · alternative wampi · alternative whampee

1. A tree, Clausena lansium, native to Southern China and Indochina.
2. The fruit of this tree.

plural wampees · alternative wampi

1. Pontederia species, especially Pontederia cordata.

   […] bulrushes, nut grass, corn grass, switch grass, and the wampees (Pontederia and Peltandra).

   1914, American Game Protective Association, Bulletin, page 20

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   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 […]

   1920, American Swineherd: Published Monthly in the Interests of Swine Raising, page 31

   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 […]

   2005, H. Peter Loewer, Peter Loewer, Native Perennials for the Southeast, page 155

   Synonyms: pickerel weed, pickerel rush