"water chestnut" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: water chestnuts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} water chestnut (countable and uncountable, plural water chestnuts)
  1. (uncountable) Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis), grown for its edible corm, used in Asian cooking. Tags: uncountable Categories (lifeform): Myrtales order plants, Root vegetables, Sedges, Vegetables, Water plants Translations (Eleocharis dulcis): 馬薺 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 马荠 (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 馬蹄 (Chinese Cantonese), 马蹄 (alt: ma⁵ tai⁴⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 荸薺 (Chinese Mandarin), 荸荠 (bíqí) (Chinese Mandarin), 馬蹄 (Chinese Mandarin), 马蹄 (mǎtí) (Chinese Mandarin), 葧薺 (Chinese Mandarin), 葧荠 (bóqí) (Chinese Mandarin), 鳧茨 (Chinese Mandarin), 凫茨 (fúcí) (Chinese Mandarin), 鳧茈 (Chinese Mandarin), 凫茈 (fúcí) (Chinese Mandarin), 地栗 (dìlì) (Chinese Mandarin), 烏芋 (Chinese Mandarin), 乌芋 (wūyù) (Chinese Mandarin), vandkastanje [common-gender] (Danish), vesikastanja (Finnish), châtaigne d’eau chinoise [feminine] (French), Wasserkastanie [feminine] (German), 馬薺 (Hakka Chinese), 马荠 (mâ-chhì) (Hakka Chinese), सिंघाड़ा (siṅghāṛā) (Hindi), castán uisce [masculine] (Irish), 白慈姑 (Japanese), 남방개 (nambanggae) (Korean), болотница сладкая (bolotnica sladkaja) [feminine] (Russian), castaña de agua china [feminine] (Spanish), vattenkastanj [common-gender] (Swedish), apulid (Tagalog), năn ngọt (Vietnamese)
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  2. (countable) A corm of a plant of this species. Tags: countable Translations (corm of this species): 馬薺 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 马荠 (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 馬蹄 (Chinese Cantonese), 马蹄 (alt: ma⁵ tai⁴⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 荸薺 (Chinese Mandarin), 荸荠 (bíqí) (Chinese Mandarin), 馬蹄 (Chinese Mandarin), 马蹄 (mǎtí) (Chinese Mandarin), 葧薺 (Chinese Mandarin), 葧荠 (bóqí) (Chinese Mandarin), 鳧茨 (Chinese Mandarin), 凫茨 (fúcí) (Chinese Mandarin), 鳧茈 (Chinese Mandarin), 凫茈 (fúcí) (Chinese Mandarin), 地栗 (dìlì) (Chinese Mandarin), 烏芋 (Chinese Mandarin), 乌芋 (wūyù) (Chinese Mandarin), vesikastanja (Finnish), 馬薺 (Hakka Chinese), 马荠 (mâ-chhì) (Hakka Chinese), vattenkastanj [common-gender] (Swedish), maxdaez (Zhuang), lwgcid (Zhuang), lwgcwd (Zhuang)
    Sense id: en-water_chestnut-en-noun-rtxk6roJ Disambiguation of 'corm of this species': 6 94 0
  3. A water caltrop (Trapa natans). Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-water_chestnut-en-noun-uYGJCkHb

Inflected forms

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          "word": "乌芋"
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    "Eleocharis dulcis"
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  "word": "water chestnut"
}
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    "Terms with Korean translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
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      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "馬蹄"
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    {
      "alt": "ma⁵ tai⁴⁻²",
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "马蹄"
    },
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      "code": "hak",
      "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "馬薺"
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      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "马荠"
    },
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      "lang": "Chinese",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
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        "Hokkien"
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      "word": "馬薺"
    },
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      "lang": "Chinese",
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      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "马荠"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "荸薺"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bíqí",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "荸荠"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "馬蹄"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "mǎtí",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "马蹄"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "葧薺"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bóqí",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "葧荠"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "鳧茨"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fúcí",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "凫茨"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "鳧茈"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fúcí",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "凫茈"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dìlì",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "地栗"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "烏芋"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wūyù",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "乌芋"
    },
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "vandkastanje"
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "vesikastanja"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "châtaigne d’eau chinoise"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "Wasserkastanie"
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      "roman": "siṅghāṛā",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "सिंघाड़ा"
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      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
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      "word": "castán uisce"
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "白慈姑"
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      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "nambanggae",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "남방개"
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      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
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      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "apulid"
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "Eleocharis dulcis",
      "word": "năn ngọt"
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      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "word": "馬蹄"
    },
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      "alt": "ma⁵ tai⁴⁻²",
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "word": "马蹄"
    },
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      "code": "hak",
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      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "word": "馬薺"
    },
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      "sense": "corm of this species",
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      "code": "nan-hbl",
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      "sense": "corm of this species",
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        "Hokkien"
      ],
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    },
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      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "zh-min-nan",
      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "马荠"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "word": "荸薺"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bíqí",
      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "word": "荸荠"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "word": "馬蹄"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "mǎtí",
      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "word": "马蹄"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "word": "葧薺"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bóqí",
      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "word": "葧荠"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "word": "鳧茨"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fúcí",
      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "word": "凫茨"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "word": "鳧茈"
    },
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "word": "凫茈"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dìlì",
      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "word": "地栗"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "word": "烏芋"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wūyù",
      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "word": "乌芋"
    },
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "word": "vesikastanja"
    },
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "vattenkastanj"
    },
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      "lang": "Zhuang",
      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "word": "maxdaez"
    },
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      "code": "za",
      "lang": "Zhuang",
      "sense": "corm of this species",
      "word": "lwgcid"
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      "code": "za",
      "lang": "Zhuang",
      "sense": "corm of this species",
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  "wikipedia": [
    "Eleocharis dulcis"
  ],
  "word": "water chestnut"
}

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