| 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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1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) Also called water caltrop a floating aquatic onagraceous plant, Trapa natans, of Asia, having four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) Chinese water chestnut. a Chinese cyperaceous plant, Eleocharis tuberosa, with an edible succulent corm
3. (Cookery) the corm of the Chinese water chestnut, used in Oriental cookery
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| Noun | 1. |  water chestnut - a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruitsgenus Trapa, Trapa - small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs: water chestnut 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 tuberswater 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 plantChinese 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 |
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