water chinquapin

2 definitions found

water chinquapin - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Water chinquapin \Wa"ter chin"qua*pin\ (Bot.)
     The American lotus, and its edible seeds, which somewhat
     resemble chinquapins. Cf. Yoncopin.
     [1913 Webster]

water chinquapin - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  water chinquapin
      n 1: water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow
           blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds [syn: water chinquapin
           , American lotus, yanquapin, Nelumbo lutea
           ]
      2: edible nutlike seeds of an American lotus having the flavor
         of a chinquapin