noun
- A plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits.
- synonyms: water chestnut plant, caltrop
- Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers.
- synonyms: Chinese water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis
- Edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant. .
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