Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fruit of a tree, Clausena Wampi, of the Rutaceæ, tribe Aurantieæ, thus allied to the orange.
- noun See
Pontederia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Southern U. S., Southern U. S. A tree (
Cookia punctata ) of the Orange family, growing in China and the East Indies; also, its fruit, which is about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and a peculiar flavor. - noun Southern U. S. The pickerel weed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A tree, clausena lansium, cultivated in China and the East Indies.
- noun The fruit of this tree.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds
Etymologies
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From Mandarin 黃皮 (huáng pí, "wampee"), literally "yellow skin".
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