Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wampee

/wɑmˈpiː/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: wampee
IPA: /wɑmˈpiː/

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A tree, Clausena lansium, native to Southern China and Indochina.

noun

The fruit of this tree.

noun

Pontederia species, especially Pontederia cordata.

Example Sentences

"[…] bulrushes, nut grass, corn grass, switch grass, and the wampees (Pontederia and Peltandra)."
"Wampee is the Indian name for the tubers of certain swamp plants, […] […] (Pontederia cordata), which occurs in swamps from Nova Scotia to Minnesota and southward to Texas and […] the success they have obtained in hog raising by utilizing the native wampees suggests the possibility of developing a type of agriculture on the old rice lands in which not only native wampees but various other swamp tuberous plants cultivated in Japan […]"
"Pontederia cordata, the pickerel weed, is a member of a small group of aquatic plants usually found in warmer regions of the world. Other common names include dog tongues and wampees. I don't know what the reference to dog tongue is, but the connection with wampees could be the similarity between the seeded pulp of the Chinese […]"

Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 黃皮 /黄皮 (wong⁴ pei⁴⁻², “wampee”, literally “yellow skin”).

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /wɑmˈpiː/
British English: /wɒmˈpiː/

Inflected Forms

wampees (plural) wampi (alternative) whampee (alternative)

Synonyms

pickerel weed pickerel rush pickerelweed pontederia cordata

Questions

How do you pronounce wampee?: The recorded pronunciation is /wɑmˈpiː/.
What does wampee mean?: A tree, Clausena lansium, native to Southern China and Indochina.
Where does wampee come from?: Borrowed from Cantonese 黃皮 /黄皮 (wong⁴ pei⁴⁻², “wampee”, literally “yellow skin”).

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