1. Water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds
   "Native Americans harvested water chinquapin seeds for food";
   - American lotus, yanquapin, Nelumbo lutea
    
2. Edible nutlike seeds of an American lotus having the flavour of a chinquapin
   "The forager collected water chinquapins from the nearby pond"

Derived forms: water chinquapins

Type of: edible seed, water lily

Part of: genus Nelumbo, Nelumbo