WATER CHESTNUT


Meaning of WATER CHESTNUT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1854

1. : any of a genus ( Trapa, especially T. natans of the family Trapaceae, the water-chestnut family) of Old World aquatic herbs sometimes grown as ornamentals ; also : its edible nutlike spiny fruit

2. : a whitish crunchy vegetable used especially in Chinese cooking that is the peeled and often sliced tuber of a sedge ( Eleocharis dulcis syn. E. tuberosa ) native to Asia but widely cultivated elsewhere ; also : the tuber or the sedge itself

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