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WATER CHESTNUT PLANT

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Meaning:

A plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits

Synonyms:

caltrop; water chestnut; water chestnut plant

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("water chestnut plant" is a kind of...):

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "water chestnut plant"):

Jesuits' nut; Trapa natans; water caltrop (a variety of water chestnut)

ling; ling ko; Trapa bicornis (water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs)

Holonyms ("water chestnut plant" is a member of...):

genus Trapa; Trapa (small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs: water chestnut)

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