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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Unami hopënis (/hopənis/ (which has now shifted to meaning "potato"), compare Munsee óhpən, ohpën (“potato”)), possibly via Colonial Swedish. Compare katniss.[1][2]
Noun
hopniss
- Apios americana, a perennial vine that bears edible beans and large edible tubers.
2014, Leda Meredith, Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles, →ISBN:You have to cook hopniss tubers—they are inedible and potentially toxic raw. They are great boiled, roasted, or fried.
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- ^ Kelly Kindscher, Edible wild plants of the prairie: an ethnobotanical guide (1987), page 49: "Peter Kalm, an economics professor and botanist from Sweden, observed the hopniss (groundnut) when in the northern colonies. He reported on March 17, 1749: 'Hopniss or hapniss was the Indian name of a wild plant '"
- ^ The Lenape Talking Dictionary
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