wampee

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Etymology

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

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Noun

wampee (plural wampees)

  1. A tree, Clausena lansium, cultivated in China and the East Indies.
  2. The fruit of this tree.
  3. (proscribed) Pontederia species, especially Pontederia cordata. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
    Synonyms: pickerel weed, pickerel rush

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