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Water chestnut Common

Water chestnut has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits

2

Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers

3

edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant

4

Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis), grown for its edible corm, used in Asian cooking.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
aquatic plant spike rush tuber
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
water caltrop ling
Rhyming Words
nut knut cnut wonut arnut donut allnut hognut lugnut cronut peanut yernut econut cobnut gumnut walnut pignut tefnut jarnut foxnut
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