| 单词 | water chestnut |
| 释义 | water chestnut (once / 303060 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY water chestnut: water chestnuts USAGE EXAMPLESAlong the fringes, impoverished communities tend rice paddies and in autumn harvest wild water chestnuts from the lake shallows. Seattle Times(Nov 11, 2016) These little walnut-sized meatballs are flavored with savory dried shrimp and mushrooms, and lightened with chopped fresh ginger and crunchy water chestnuts. Los Angeles Times(Mar 09, 2016) Add chopped shiitake mushrooms and chopped water chestnuts. Los Angeles Times(Sep 28, 2015) 1 1n Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers Syn|Hyper Chinese water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis spike rush a sedge of the genus Eleocharis 2n edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant 2Hyper tuber a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage n a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits Syn|Hypo|Hyper caltrop, water chestnut plant Jesuits' nut, Trapa natans, water caltrop a variety of water chestnut Trapa bicornis, ling, ling kowater chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs 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 |
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