pickerelweed, pickerel weed, wampee, Pontederia cordata
(noun) American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds
Source: WordNet® 3.1
wampee (plural wampees)
A tree, Clausena lansium, cultivated in China and the East Indies.
The fruit of this tree.
Source: Wiktionary
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.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 April 2024
(verb) hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty; “The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
