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water chestnut  noun1 (also Chinese water chestnut) The crisp, white-fleshed tuber of a tropical sedge, used in oriental cooking.Be careful because a tiny cube of crisp water chestnut, together with some hot juice, is wrapped in the core of each ball....- Or add flavour at the end in the form of smoked or raw fish, scallops, sliced and marinated beef, Chinese roast pork, finely chopped water chestnut or finely shredded iceberg lettuce.
- Deep-frozen eyeballs might have the same consistency, somewhere between a water chestnut and a lychee; a cavernous void would have had more flavour.
2The sedge which yields the water chestnut, which is cultivated in flooded fields in SE Asia.- Eleocharis tuberosa, family Cyperaceae.
Where I lived in up-state New York someone got the bright idea of growing water chestnuts in a pond as a crop. 3 (also water caltrop) An aquatic plant with small white flowers, producing an edible rounded seed with two large projecting horns.- Trapa natans, family Trapaceae.
Edible plants for your pond include watercress, water chestnuts, and arrowhead or Wapato....- Eleocharis dulcis, is not a nut and is a completely different plant from the water chestnuts of the genus Trapa.
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