WATER CHESTNUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water chestnut mean? 

• WATER CHESTNUT (noun)
  The noun WATER CHESTNUT has 3 senses:

1. a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits

2. Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers

3. edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant

  Familiarity information: WATER CHESTNUT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER CHESTNUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

caltrop; water chestnut; water chestnut plant

Hypernyms ("water chestnut" is a kind of...):

aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "water chestnut"):

Jesuits' nut; Trapa natans; water caltrop (a variety of water chestnut)

ling; ling ko; Trapa bicornis (water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs)

Holonyms ("water chestnut" is a member of...):

genus Trapa; Trapa (small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs: water chestnut)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Chinese water chestnut; Eleocharis dulcis; water chestnut

Hypernyms ("water chestnut" is a kind of...):

spike rush (a sedge of the genus Eleocharis)

Meronyms (parts of "water chestnut"):

water chestnut (edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("water chestnut" is a kind of...):

tuber (a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage)

Holonyms ("water chestnut" is a part of...):

Chinese water chestnut; Eleocharis dulcis; water chestnut (Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers)