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water chestnut

n.

1. A floating aquatic plant (Trapa natans) native to Eurasia and Africa, bearing four-pronged nutlike fruit and grown as a pond or aquarium ornamental. Also called caltrop, water caltrop.

2.

a. A tropical Asian aquatic sedge (Eleocharis dulcis) having an edible corm and cylindrical leaves.

b. The succulent corm of this plant, used in Asian cooking. Also called Chinese water chestnut.

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water chestnut

Noun

the edible tuber of a Chinese plant, used in Oriental cookery

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	water chestnut - a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits water chestnut plant, caltrop genus Trapa, Trapa - small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs: water chestnut Jesuits' nut, Trapa natans, water caltrop - a variety of water chestnut ling, ling ko, Trapa bicornis - water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs 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
	2.	water chestnut - Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers Chinese water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis water chestnut - edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant spike rush - a sedge of the genus Eleocharis
	3.	water chestnut - edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant Chinese water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis, water chestnut - Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers tuber - a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage