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1. water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds

2. edible nutlike seeds of an American lotus having the flavor of a chinquapin

: an American lotus (Nelumbo lutea); also : its edible nutlike seed that has the flavor of a chinquapin

1. an American lotus, Nelumbo lutea, having pale-yellow flowers and an edible seed.

2. the seed itself, similar in flavor to the chinquapin.

[1830-40, Amer.]

water chinquapin,

1. a North American water plant, a variety of nelumbo, that bears yellow flowers and edible, nutlike seeds.

2. its seed.