The Collaborative International Dictionary
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
n. (alternative form of wapato English)
Usage examples of "wappato".
They brought with them wappato, a black sweet root they call shanataque, and a small sea-otter skin, all of which we purchased for a few fishing hooks and a small sack of Indian tobacco which was given us by the Snake Indians.
At present we were content with eating our boiled elk and wappato, and solacing our thirst with our only beverage, pure water.
With the magnet I turned the needle of the compass about very briskly, which astonished and alarmed these natives, and they laid several parcels of wappato at my feet, and begged of me to take out the bad fire.