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Dictionary Results for water chestnut:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

water chestnut
    n 1: a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged
         edible nutlike fruits [syn: water chestnut, water
         chestnut plant, caltrop]
    2: Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers [syn: water
       chestnut, Chinese water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis]
    3: edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Water chestnut \Wa"ter chest"nut\ (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.
   [1913 Webster]

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