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Water chestnut   /wˈɔtər tʃˈɛsnˌət/   Listen
Water chestnut

noun
1.
A plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits.  Synonyms: caltrop, water chestnut plant.
2.
Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers.  Synonyms: Chinese water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis.
3.
Edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant.



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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
... 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


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