Synonyms: water chestnut
Definition: edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant
Similar words: tuber
Definition: a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage
Synonyms: water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis, Chinese water chestnut
Definition: Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers
Similar words: spike rush
Definition: a sedge of the genus Eleocharis
Synonyms: caltrop, water chestnut, water chestnut plant
Definition: a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
Similar words: water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, aquatic plant
Definition: 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