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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)

  1. (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 []