"caltrop" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

Tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets;
Serious pasture weed (synset 112744370)
is a type of: subshrub, suffrutex - low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base

belongs to: genus tribulus, tribulus - annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs of warm regions

same as: devil's weed, tribulus terestris
A plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits (synset 112368811)
is a type 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
subtypes:
- 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
belongs to: genus trapa, trapa - small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs: water chestnut

same as: water chestnut, water chestnut plant
Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales;
Naturalized in America (synset 111968513)
is a type of: centaury - any plant of the genus Centaurea

same as: centauria calcitrapa, star-thistle