Chinese water chestnut — noun Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb shaped tubers • Syn: ↑water chestnut, ↑Eleocharis dulcis • Hypernyms: ↑spike rush • Part Meronyms: ↑water chestnut … Useful english dictionary
Water chestnut cake — is a sweet Cantonese dim sum dish made of shredded Chinese water chestnut. During yum cha the cake is usually cut into square shaped slices and pan fried before serving. The cake is soft, but holds its shape after the frying. Sometimes the cake… … Wikipedia
water chestnut — noun 1. a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four pronged edible nutlike fruits • Syn: ↑water chestnut plant, ↑caltrop • Hypernyms: ↑aquatic plant, ↑water plant, ↑hydrophyte, ↑hydrophytic plant … Useful english dictionary
water chestnut — 1. any aquatic plant of the genus Trapa, bearing an edible, nutlike fruit, esp. T. natans, of the Old World. 2. the fruit itself. Also called water caltrop. [1850 55] * * * Any of several perennial water plants of the genus Trapa (family… … Universalium
Chinese Water Shrew — Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 2.3) Scientific classification Ki … Wikipedia
water chestnut — n. ☆ 1. a) a Chinese sedge (Eleocharis dulcis) with erect, cylindrical leaves, growing in dense clumps in water b) the large, button shaped, submerged tubers of this plant, used in Chinese cooking 2. a floating aquatic weed (Trapa natans) of the… … English World dictionary
water chestnut — water .chestnut n the thick stem of a plant that grows in water, used in Chinese cooking … Dictionary of contemporary English
water chestnut — water chestnuts N COUNT A water chestnut is the thick bottom part of the stem of a plant which grows in China. It is used in Chinese cookery … English dictionary
water chestnut — noun Date: 1854 1. any of a genus (Trapa, especially T. natans of the family Trapaceae, the water chestnut family) of Old World aquatic herbs sometimes grown as ornamentals; also its edible nutlike spiny fruit 2. a whitish crunchy vegetable used… … New Collegiate Dictionary
water chestnut — noun (C) a white fruit like a nut from a plant grown in water, used in Chinese cooking … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
