WATER CHESTNUT


Meaning of WATER CHESTNUT in English

■ noun

1》 the crisp white-fleshed tuber of a tropical aquatic sedge, used in oriental cookery.

↘the sedge which yields ~s. [ Eleocharis tuberosa .]

2》 (also water caltrop ) an aquatic plant with small white flowers, producing an edible rounded seed with projecting horns. [ Trapa natans .]

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