| 单词 | caltrop |
| 释义 | caltrop (once / 119387 pages) 1n 2n 3n WORD FAMILY caltrop: caltrops USAGE EXAMPLESClarisse climbed aboard with a batch of javelins, spiked balls, caltrops, and a bunch of other nasty toys. Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters(2006) A telegram was accordingly despatched to Mrs. Caltrop, asking her to forward the address of the doctor in question. Boothby, Guy Newell, The Childerbridge Mystery(2011) And, lastly, they strewed innumerable caltrops and steel-traps upon the space between the town-moats and the camp of the besiegers. Dahn, Felix, A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3)(2010) 1 n tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed 2Syn|Hyper Tribulus terestris, devil's weed subshrub, suffrutex low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base n a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper water chestnut, water chestnut plant Jesuits' nut, Trapa natans, water caltrop a variety of water chestnut Trapa bicornis, ling, ling kowater chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs aquatic 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 n Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America Syn|Hyper Centauria calcitrapa, star-thistle centaury any plant of the genus Centaurea |
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