| 单词 | water chestnut |
| 释义 | water chestnutnounany aquatic plant of the genus Trapa, bearing an edible, nutlike fruit, especially T. natans, of the Old World. the fruit itself. Also called water caltrop. Origin of water chestnutFirst recorded in 1850–55 Words nearby water chestnutWaterbury, water-bus, water butt, water cannon, water carrier, water chestnut, water chinquapin, water clock, water closet, water clover, watercolor Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for water chestnut
British Dictionary definitions for water chestnutwater chestnut nounAlso called: water caltrop a floating aquatic onagraceous plant, Trapa natans, of Asia, having four-pronged edible nutlike fruits Chinese water chestnut a Chinese cyperaceous plant, Eleocharis tuberosa, with an edible succulent corm the corm of the Chinese water chestnut, used in Oriental cookery Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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