TRAPA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Trapa mean? 

• TRAPA (noun)
  The noun TRAPA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs: water chestnut

  Familiarity information: TRAPA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAPA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs: water chestnut

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Trapa; Trapa

Hypernyms ("Trapa" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Trapa"):

caltrop; water chestnut; water chestnut plant (a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits)

Holonyms ("Trapa" is a member of...):

family Trapaceae; Trapaceae (family comprising solely the genus Trapa; in some classifications treated as a subfamily or tribe of the family Onagraceae)