water chestnut plant

Definitions of water chestnut plant

1. noun

   a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
   synonyms: caltrop, water chestnut

   types:

   Jesuits' nut, Trapa natans, water caltrop

   a variety of water chestnut

   Trapa bicornis, ling, ling ko

   water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs

   type 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