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water chestnut
noun
- any aquatic plant of the genus Trapa, bearing an edible, nutlike fruit, especially T. natans, of the Old World.
- the fruit itself.
water chestnut
noun
- Also calledwater caltrop a floating aquatic onagraceous plant, Trapa natans, of Asia, having four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
- Chinese water chestnutChinese water chestnut a Chinese cyperaceous plant, Eleocharis tuberosa, with an edible succulent corm
- the corm of the Chinese water chestnut, used in Oriental cookery
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Word History and Origins
Origin of water chestnut1
First recorded in 1850–55
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Example Sentences
Once I was as full of romance as a water-chestnut is of starch.
From Project Gutenberg
She seemed to have the texture of the water chestnut and the lush, fat vegetables of the spring.
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