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WAMPEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wampee mean? 

WAMPEE (noun)
  The noun WAMPEE has 1 sense:

1. American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and pondsplay

  Familiarity information: WAMPEE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WAMPEE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

pickerel weed; pickerelweed; Pontederia cordata; wampee

Hypernyms ("wampee" is a kind of...):

aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)

Holonyms ("wampee" is a member of...):

genus Pontederia; Pontederia (pickerelweed)


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