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Definition of Wappato

wappato
Wapatoo Wap"a*too`, n. (Bot.) The edible tuber of a species of arrowhead (Sagittaria variabilis); -- so called by the Indians of Oregon. [Written also wappato.]
Wappato
Wappato Wap"pa*to, n. (Bot.) See Wapatoo.

Meaning of Wappato from wikipedia

- Wapato can mean: Any of various plants in the genus Sagittaria Wapato, Washington, a town named after the plant in the State of Washington in the United...
- generally along the western Willamette riverbank, also known as Wappato / Wapato people after Wappato/Wapato (Indian potato), an marsh-grown plant like a potato...
- Institute of Geography and History: 127. JSTOR 43996285., s.v. Swamp Potato (wappato) Oregon "Native American Ethnobotany Database". Botanical Research Institute...
- "I entered this river...called Multnomah...from a nation who reside on Wappato Island, a little below the enterence" (quoted from Willamette Landings...
- people year-round, and as many as 8,000 during fishing and wappato-harvesting seasons (wappato is a marsh-grown plant like a potato or onion and a staple...
- the indigenous po****tion: trading beaver skins, berries, salmon, and wappato. Merriwether Lewis commented between their variance in speech from the...
- The early 19th century explorers Lewis and Clark called it Wappato Inlet after Wappato Island, the name they used for Sauvie Island. In the 1840s, nautical...
- city of Gaston. The district was established about 1852 and later the Wappato (511J) and Yamhill (555J) districts in neighboring Yamhill County merged...