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| wa·ter chest·nut (plural wa·ter chest·nuts) |
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1. crunchy nut-shaped corm: a round white crunchy stem base corm of a Chinese water plant, often used in Asian cooking. Water chestnuts are sometimes used in food manufacture to add crunchiness to processed foods.
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2. Chinese plant with edible stem: a Chinese water plant that produces water chestnuts. Latin name Eleocharis tuberosa.
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3. water plant: an annual water plant that forms rosettes of diamond-shaped floating leaves, has feathery underwater leaves, and bears hard spiny dark-gray fruit containing edible seeds. Native to: Europe, Asia. Latin name Trapa natans.
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