English Dictionary

WATER CHESTNUT

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

IPA (US): 

 Dictionary entry overview: What does water chestnut mean? 

WATER CHESTNUT (noun)
  The noun WATER CHESTNUT has 3 senses:

1. a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruitsplay

2. Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubersplay

3. edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plantplay

  Familiarity information: WATER CHESTNUT used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


WATER CHESTNUT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

caltrop; water chestnut; water chestnut plant

Hypernyms ("water chestnut" is a kind 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "water chestnut"):

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)

Holonyms ("water chestnut" is a member of...):

genus Trapa; Trapa (small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs: water chestnut)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Chinese water chestnut; Eleocharis dulcis; water chestnut

Hypernyms ("water chestnut" is a kind of...):

spike rush (a sedge of the genus Eleocharis)

Meronyms (parts of "water chestnut"):

water chestnut (edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant)


Sense 3

Meaning:

Edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("water chestnut" is a kind of...):

tuber (a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage)

Holonyms ("water chestnut" is a part of...):

Chinese water chestnut; Eleocharis dulcis; water chestnut (Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers)


 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"Blood will out." (English proverb)

"The chicken that cries at night will not lay eggs in the morning." (Albanian proverb)

"What is learned in youth is carved in stone." (Arabic proverb)

"Comparing apples and pears." (Dutch proverb)



ALSO IN ENGLISH DICTIONARY:


© 2000-2023 AudioEnglish.org | AudioEnglish® is a Registered Trademark | Terms of use and privacy policy
Contact