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Webster 1913 Edition
Yoncopin
Yon′co-pin
,Noun.
[Perhaps corrupted from Illinois
micoupena
, Chippewa makopin
, the American lotus.] (Bot.)
A local name in parts of the Mississippi Valley for the American lotus (
Nelumbo lutea
). Definition 2024
yoncopin
yoncopin
English
Noun
yoncopin (plural yoncopins)
- (US, Mississippi, dialect) Nelumbo lutea, the American lotus, the water chinkapin.
- 1910, Margaret Hill McCarter, The Price of the Prairie:
- […] she was as the wild yoncopin to the calla lily. Marjie knew how to dress. To-day, shaded by the buggy-top, in her dainty light blue lawn, with the soft pink of her cheeks and her clear white brow and throat, she was a most delicious thing […]
- 1910, Margaret Hill McCarter, The Price of the Prairie: