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wapatowa
Cree/Algonquian · pre-1800s
"a wetland plant with an edible tuber"
possibly meant 'white mushroom', later applied to a starchy wetland tuber
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wapato
Chinook Jargon · 1800s
"an edible aquatic tuber, also called duck potato"
adopted into the Pacific Northwest trade language, where the plant was a staple food along the Columbia River
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wapato
English · 1805
"an edible wetland tuber traditionally harvested in the Pacific Northwest"
recorded by the Lewis and Clark expedition and adopted into regional English
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