The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wapatoo
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.]
Wiktionary
wapatoo
n. (alternative form of wapato English)
Usage examples of "wapatoo".
Remembering the fish trap had jogged his memory about other things, and he thought of the arrowhead, or wapatoo, a water plant growing in ponds and slow-moving streams.
He remembered that there had been two seasons when the potato crop failed, and he and his father had eaten the wapatoo instead.