| NOUN | plant | caltrop, devil's weed, Tribulus terestris | tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets |
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| plant | caltrop, water chestnut, water chestnut plant | a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits | |
| plant | caltrop, star-thistle, Centauria calcitrapa | Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales |
| Meaning | Tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed. | |
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| Synonyms | devil's weed, Tribulus terestris | |
| Member of | Tribulus, genus Tribulus | Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs of warm regions |
| Broader | subshrub, suffrutex | low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base |
| Meaning | A plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits. | |
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| Synonyms | water chestnut, water chestnut plant | |
| Member of | Trapa, genus Trapa | small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs |
| Narrower | ling, ling ko, Trapa bicornis | water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs |
| water caltrop, Jesuits' nut, Trapa natans | A variety of water chestnut | |
| Broader | aquatic plant, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant | A plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus / lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth |
| Spanish | abrojo | |
| Meaning | Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America. | |
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| Synonyms | star-thistle, Centauria calcitrapa | |
| Broader | centaury | Any plant of the genus Centaurea |
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