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单词 water chestnut
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Definition of water chestnut in English:

water chestnut

noun
  • 1The crisp, white-fleshed tuber of a tropical sedge, used in oriental cooking.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Drain the vinegar from the clam and add the sweet pea juice, wasabi, water chestnuts, chili, parsley and sea salt and toss to combine.
    • Deep-frozen eyeballs might have the same consistency, somewhere between a water chestnut and a lychee; a cavernous void would have had more flavour.
    • Oh, I thought this was a potato, but they're more like water chestnuts.
    • Or add flavour at the end in the form of smoked or raw fish, scallops, sliced and marinated beef, Chinese roast pork, finely chopped water chestnut or finely shredded iceberg lettuce.
    • Drain well, then add beans, orange sections and water chestnuts.
    • In the latter stages of cooking add water chestnuts, small corns, green beans and a tin of coconut milk.
    • With her fingers, she picked up a water chestnut experimentally and placed it in her mouth.
    • The dish included a good range of crunchy vegetables - broccoli, green peppers, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, cashew nuts and onion among them.
    • Be careful because a tiny cube of crisp water chestnut, together with some hot juice, is wrapped in the core of each ball.
    • It contained rump steak, mushrooms, peppers, water chestnuts and bamboo shoots.
    • Add the prawns, cornflour, paste and bamboo shoots, carrots, water chestnuts and bean sprouts.
    • The sizzling chicken with a spicy Peking sauce proved very popular and came with bean sprouts, crispy water chestnuts and small shapes of carrot in a very tasty sweet and sour barbecue sauce.
    • Create themes for your raw veggies such as an Asian mix with snow peas, cucumber slices, shredded carrots, water chestnuts, bean sprouts and bok choy.
    • Add ginger, dried and fresh mushrooms, water chestnuts and beansprouts and toss well.
    • After 1 minute, add snow peas, bean sprouts, water chestnuts and sliced red capsicum to wok.
    • Sweetened scrambled egg yolk with water chestnuts, sweet corns and dried fruits is a dim sum created by the chef, crisp and soft.
    • This was not your usual lumps of chicken floating on a sea of oyster sauce and a sprinkle of cashews, but had crispy water chestnuts, some pieces of sausage, mushroom and fried chilli as well.
    • The water chestnuts went with the baby corn and straw mushrooms very well, and the cream cut the chilli heat to perfection.
    • The sautéed mushrooms, celery, tiny corn, water chestnut and snow peas are specially recommended - they were healthy and light, half fried so that the colour was bright and the vegetables crisp and full of juice.
    • Clark spears a water chestnut with his chopstick while trying to pick it up.
  • 2The sedge that yields the water chestnut, which is cultivated in flooded fields in SE Asia.

    Eleocharis tuberosa, family Cyperaceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Where I lived in up-state New York someone got the bright idea of growing water chestnuts in a pond as a crop.
  • 3An aquatic plant with small white flowers, producing an edible rounded seed with two large projecting horns.

    Trapa natans, family Trapaceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Edible plants for your pond include watercress, water chestnuts, and arrowhead or Wapato.
    • Eleocharis dulcis, is not a nut and is a completely different plant from the water chestnuts of the genus Trapa.
 
 

Definition of water chestnut in US English:

water chestnut

nounˈwɔdər ˌtʃɛs(t)nət
  • 1The tuber of a tropical sedge that is widely used in Asian cooking, its white flesh remaining crisp after cooking.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The dish included a good range of crunchy vegetables - broccoli, green peppers, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, cashew nuts and onion among them.
    • It contained rump steak, mushrooms, peppers, water chestnuts and bamboo shoots.
    • Sweetened scrambled egg yolk with water chestnuts, sweet corns and dried fruits is a dim sum created by the chef, crisp and soft.
    • Clark spears a water chestnut with his chopstick while trying to pick it up.
    • The sizzling chicken with a spicy Peking sauce proved very popular and came with bean sprouts, crispy water chestnuts and small shapes of carrot in a very tasty sweet and sour barbecue sauce.
    • This was not your usual lumps of chicken floating on a sea of oyster sauce and a sprinkle of cashews, but had crispy water chestnuts, some pieces of sausage, mushroom and fried chilli as well.
    • With her fingers, she picked up a water chestnut experimentally and placed it in her mouth.
    • Add the prawns, cornflour, paste and bamboo shoots, carrots, water chestnuts and bean sprouts.
    • Deep-frozen eyeballs might have the same consistency, somewhere between a water chestnut and a lychee; a cavernous void would have had more flavour.
    • The sautéed mushrooms, celery, tiny corn, water chestnut and snow peas are specially recommended - they were healthy and light, half fried so that the colour was bright and the vegetables crisp and full of juice.
    • Drain the vinegar from the clam and add the sweet pea juice, wasabi, water chestnuts, chili, parsley and sea salt and toss to combine.
    • Oh, I thought this was a potato, but they're more like water chestnuts.
    • Add ginger, dried and fresh mushrooms, water chestnuts and beansprouts and toss well.
    • Or add flavour at the end in the form of smoked or raw fish, scallops, sliced and marinated beef, Chinese roast pork, finely chopped water chestnut or finely shredded iceberg lettuce.
    • Drain well, then add beans, orange sections and water chestnuts.
    • Create themes for your raw veggies such as an Asian mix with snow peas, cucumber slices, shredded carrots, water chestnuts, bean sprouts and bok choy.
    • Be careful because a tiny cube of crisp water chestnut, together with some hot juice, is wrapped in the core of each ball.
    • After 1 minute, add snow peas, bean sprouts, water chestnuts and sliced red capsicum to wok.
    • In the latter stages of cooking add water chestnuts, small corns, green beans and a tin of coconut milk.
    • The water chestnuts went with the baby corn and straw mushrooms very well, and the cream cut the chilli heat to perfection.
  • 2The sedge that yields the water chestnut, which is cultivated in flooded fields in Southeast Asia.

    Eleocharis tuberosa, family Cyperaceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Where I lived in up-state New York someone got the bright idea of growing water chestnuts in a pond as a crop.
  • 3An aquatic plant with small white flowers, producing an edible rounded seed with two large projecting horns.

    Trapa natans, family Trapaceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Eleocharis dulcis, is not a nut and is a completely different plant from the water chestnuts of the genus Trapa.
    • Edible plants for your pond include watercress, water chestnuts, and arrowhead or Wapato.
 
 
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