| NOUN | plant | water chestnut plant, water chestnut, caltrop | a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits |
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| Meaning | A plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits. | |
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| Synonyms | water chestnut, caltrop | |
| 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 | |
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