water chestnut
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(noun) edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant |
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Related Words: tuber |
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(noun) Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers |
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Synonyms: Chinese water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis |
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Related Words: spike rush |
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(noun) a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits |
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Synonyms: caltrop, water chestnut plant |
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Related Words: Jesuits' nut, Trapa bicornis, Trapa natans, aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, ling, ling ko, water caltrop, water plant |
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