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water chestnut

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: water chestnut

1
 n
Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers
2
 n
a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: water chestnut
1

n Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers

Synonyms:
Chinese water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis
Type of:
spike rush
a sedge of the genus Eleocharis

n edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant

Type of:
tuber
a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage
2

n a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits

Synonyms:
caltrop, water chestnut plant
Types:
Jesuits' nut, Trapa natans, water caltrop
a variety of water chestnut
Trapa bicornis, ling, ling ko
water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs
Type of:
aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant
a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth
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