yoncopin

English

Alternative forms

• yancopin
• yankapin

Etymology

Probably related to wankapin.

Noun

yoncopin (plural yoncopins)

1. (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 […]