yoncopin
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably related to wankapin.
Noun
[edit]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 […]