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water chestnuts

water chestnuts is the plural of water chestnut.

Meaning of water chestnut

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.
  2. (countable) A corm of a plant of this species.
  3. A water caltrop (Trapa natans).

Questions about water chestnuts

What is water chestnuts the plural of?
Water chestnuts is the plural of water chestnut.

Words near water chestnuts in the dictionary

  1. water cells
  2. water cement
  3. water cements
  4. water chat
  5. water chestnut
  6. water chestnuts
  7. water chicken
  8. water chickens
  9. water chinquapin
  10. water chinquapins
  11. water clock

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