HyperDic: chinese_water_chestnut

English > 1 sense of the expression Chinese water chestnut:
NOUNplantChinese water chestnut, water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcisChinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers
English > Chinese water chestnut: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningChinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers.
Synonymswater chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis
Partswater chestnutedible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant
Broaderspike rushA sedge of the genus Eleocharis

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