water chestnut plant
Noun
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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 hyacinthsubtypes:
- 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 chestnutsame as: caltrop, water chestnut
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