Wampee

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wampee \Wam*pee"\, n. (Bot.)
     (a) A tree ({Cookia punctata}) of the Orange family, growing
         in China and the East Indies; also, its fruit, which is
         about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and
         a peculiar flavor.
     (b) The pickerel weed. [Southern U. S.]


         [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wampee
       n : American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in
           shallow water of streams and ponds [syn: {pickerelweed},
           {pickerel weed}, {Pontederia cordata}]