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water chestnut
water chestnutn.1. a. A tropical Asian aquatic sedge (Eleocharis dulcis) having cylindrical stems and widely cultivated for its edible corm.b. The crisp nutty corm of this plant, used in Asian cooking.2. A floating aquatic plant (Trapa natans) native to Eurasia and Africa, cultivated as an ornamental and for its edible four-pronged nutlike fruit, and occurring widely as an aquatic weed. Also called caltrop, water caltrop.water chestnut n 1. (Plants) Also called: water caltrop a floating aquatic onagraceous plant, Trapa natans, of Asia, having four-pronged edible nutlike fruits 2. (Plants) Chinese water chestnut a Chinese cyperaceous plant, Eleocharis tuberosa, with an edible succulent corm 3. (Cookery) the corm of the Chinese water chestnut, used in Oriental cookery wa′ter chest`nut
n. 1. any of several aquatic plants of the genus Trapa, family Trapaceae, with an edible, nutlike fruit, esp. T.natans of the Old World. 2. the fruit itself. Also called wa′ter cal`trop. water chestnutA dark, chestnut-sized bulb, grown in water. Used in Oriental cooking.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  water chestnut - a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruitswater chestnut plant, caltropgenus Trapa, Trapa - small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs: water chestnutJesuits' nut, Trapa natans, water caltrop - a variety of water chestnutling, ling ko, Trapa bicornis - water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongsaquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant - a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth | | 2. |  water chestnut - Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubersChinese water chestnut, Eleocharis dulciswater chestnut - edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plantspike rush - a sedge of the genus Eleocharis | | 3. |  water chestnut - edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plantChinese water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis, water chestnut - Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tuberstuber - a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage |
Translationswater chestnut
water chestnut: see sedgesedge,
common name for members of the Cyperaceae, a family of grasslike and rushlike herbs found in all parts of the world, especially in marshes of subarctic and temperate zones.
..... Click the link for more information. .Water Chestnut horned nut, water caltrop, water chestnut, devil’s nut (Trapa), a species of plants of the water chestnut family; annual water grasses. The solid leaves are filamentary and fall early; they develop on underwater stems that grow in bunches. The stems also send out, on threadlike extensions, organs that have photo synthetic functions. Apparently these are modified stipules, although they are frequently taken for roots. The real roots, which develop in several nodes, attach the plant to the substrata. The stem forms a rosette of diamond-shaped leaves floating on the sur-face, with rounded, swollen stalks of various lengths. The fruit is round and textured (“nutlike”) with four or, more rarely, two hornlike projections. There are about 15 species that take many forms thought to be separate varieties (in which case some 30-50 living species and up to 100 including fossils have been found). Water chestnuts are found sporadically, and at times in large quantities, in Eurasia and Africa; they usually occur in small bodies of fresh water with stagnant or slowly moving water. In the USSR, they grow in the lower reaches of the Volga, Dnieper, Bug, and Dniester rivers, in the Far East, and in Siberia and the Caucasus. The fruit is used for human and animal food. REFERENCEVasiFev, V. N. Vodianoi orekh i perspektivy ego kul’tury v SSSR. Moscow-Leningrad, 1960.M. E. KIRPICHNIKOV water chestnut1. a floating aquatic onagraceous plant, Trapa natans, of Asia, having four-pronged edible nutlike fruits 2. Chinese water chestnut. a Chinese cyperaceous plant, Eleocharis tuberosa, with an edible succulent corm water chestnut
Synonyms for water chestnutnoun a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruitsSynonyms- water chestnut plant
- caltrop
Related Words- genus Trapa
- Trapa
- Jesuits' nut
- Trapa natans
- water caltrop
- ling
- ling ko
- Trapa bicornis
- aquatic plant
- hydrophyte
- hydrophytic plant
- water plant
noun Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubersSynonyms- Chinese water chestnut
- Eleocharis dulcis
Related Wordsnoun edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plantRelated Words- Chinese water chestnut
- Eleocharis dulcis
- water chestnut
- tuber
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