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6 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds
originPerhaps from a Native American language of the Carolinas such as Carolina Algonquian. If the name was originally applied to a white variety, it could be from the Algqonian root for "white": compare Massachusett wompi (“white”), whence English wamp and wampum.
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