"water chestnut" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

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: caltrop, water chestnut plant
is a type of: spike rush - a sedge of the genus Eleocharis

has: water chestnut - edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant

same as: chinese water chestnut, eleocharis dulcis
is a type of: tuber - a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage

is a part of: chinese water chestnut, eleocharis dulcis, water chestnut - Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers