About The Word Water chestnut
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Water chestnut
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What's The Definition Of Water chestnut?
[n] edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant
[n] Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers [n] a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits Synonyms | Synonyms for Water chestnut: caltrop | Chinese water chestnut | Eleocharis dulcis | water chestnut plant Related Terms | Find terms related to Water chestnut: See Also | aquatic plant | Chinese water chestnut | Eleocharis dulcis | genus Trapa | hydrophyte | hydrophytic plant | Jesuits' nut | ling | ling ko | spike rush | Trapa | Trapa bicornis | Trapa natans | tuber | water caltrop | water chestnut | water chestnut | water plant Water chestnut In Webster's Dictionary \Wa"ter chest"nut\ (Bot.)
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}.
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