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Water chestnut  n.  (Bot.) The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; called also water caltrop.






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"Water chestnut" Quotes from Famous Books



... too proud, makes quite a good golf caddy. Shisha Nag, "The Glassy or Leaden Lake." Silver fir, Abies Webbiana (Kashmiri, Sungal). Grows to a great height, being known 110 feet high and 16 feet in girth. Sind Desert, Sind Valley, Singhara, Meaning "horned nut," the water chestnut (Trapa bispinosa). An article of diet much prized by the Kashmiri. Sogul, Sonamarg, "The Golden Marg." A summer station high up the Sind Valley on the route to Leh and Ladak. Sopor, Sonapur, or the Golden City. A somewhat ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne



Words linked to "Water chestnut" :   spike rush, genus Trapa, Trapa, Jesuits' nut, water chestnut plant, tuber, water plant, hydrophyte, Trapa natans, aquatic plant, caltrop, ling ko, hydrophytic plant, ling, water caltrop, Eleocharis dulcis, Chinese water chestnut, Trapa bicornis



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