water chestnut plant

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water chestnut plant - a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruitswater chestnut, caltropgenus Trapa, Trapa - small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs: water chestnutJesuits' nut, Trapa natans, water caltrop - a variety of water chestnutling, ling ko, Trapa bicornis - water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongsaquatic 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