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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits;
[syn: water chestnut, water chestnut plant, caltrop]

2. Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers;
[syn: water chestnut, Chinese water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis]

3. edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Water chestnut \Wa"ter chest"nut\ (Bot.) The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

water chestnut n 1: a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits [syn: water chestnut, water chestnut plant, caltrop] 2: Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers [syn: water chestnut, Chinese water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis] 3: edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant