English noun: water chestnut |
1. | water chestnut (plant) a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits |
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| Synonyms | caltrop, water chestnut plant |
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| Broader (hypernym) | aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Jesuits' nut, ling, ling ko, Trapa bicornis, Trapa natans, water caltrop |
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| Member meronym | genus Trapa, Trapa |
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2. | water chestnut (plant) Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers |
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| Synonyms | Chinese water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis |
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| Broader (hypernym) | spike rush |
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| Part holonym | water chestnut |
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3. | water chestnut (food) edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant |
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| Broader (hypernym) | tuber |
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| Part meronym | Chinese water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis, water chestnut |
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