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Etymology

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Borrowed from Unami hopënis (/hopənis/ (which has now shifted to meaning "potato"), compare Munsee óhpən, ohpën (potato)), possibly via Colonial Swedish. Compare katniss.[1][2]

Noun

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hopniss

  1. Apios americana, a perennial vine that bears edible beans and large edible tubers.
    • 2014, Leda Meredith, Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles, →ISBN:
      You have to cook hopniss tubers—they are inedible and potentially toxic raw. They are great boiled, roasted, or fried.

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References

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  1. ^ Kelly Kindscher, Edible wild plants of the prairie: an ethnobotanical guide (1987), page 49: "Peter Kalm, an economics professor and botanist from Sweden, observed the hopniss (groundnut) when in the northern colonies. He reported on March 17, 1749: 'Hopniss or hapniss was the Indian name of a wild plant [...]'"
  2. ^ The Lenape Talking Dictionary

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