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water chestnut
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun water chestnut has 3 senses
- water chestnut(n = noun.plant) caltrop, water chestnut plant - a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits; Array is a member of genus trapa, trapa
- water chestnut(n = noun.plant) chinese water chestnut, eleocharis dulcis - Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers; Array has parts: water chestnut
- water chestnut(n = noun.food) Array - edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant; Array is a part of chinese water chestnut, eleocharis dulcis, water chestnut
has particulars: jesuits' nut, trapa natans, water caltrop, ling, ling ko, trapa bicornis
is a kind of aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant
is a kind of spike rush
is a kind of tuber
CIDE DICTIONARY
water chestnut,
The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis , Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop . [1913 Webster]
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