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Water chestnut   Listen
noun
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



... royal palace there was a woman, tall, lithe, with a skin of ivory and roses and eyes as brown as the husk of a water chestnut. On her bare ankles were gem-incrusted anklets, on her arms bracelets of hammered gold, round her neck a rope of pearls and emeralds and rubies and sapphires. And still ...
— The Adventures of Kathlyn • Harold MacGrath


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


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