| Eleocharis dulcis | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. chinese water chestnut, eleocharis dulcis, water chestnut | Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers. |
| ~ water chestnut | edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant. |
| ~ spike rush | a sedge of the genus Eleocharis. |
| water chestnut | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. caltrop, water chestnut, water chestnut plant | a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits. |
| ~ genus trapa, trapa | small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs: water chestnut. |
| ~ jesuits' nut, trapa natans, water caltrop | a variety of water chestnut. |
| ~ ling, ling ko, trapa bicornis | water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs. |
| ~ aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant | a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth. |
| n. (food) | 2. water chestnut | edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant. |
| ~ chinese water chestnut, eleocharis dulcis, water chestnut | Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers. |
| ~ tuber | a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage. |
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