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water chestnut

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

wa·ter chest·nut • n. 1. (also Chinese water chestnut) the tuber of a tropical sedge that is widely used in Asian cooking, its white flesh remaining crisp after cooking. 2. the sedge (Eleocharis tuberosa) that yields this tuber, which is cultivated in flooded fields in Southeast Asia. 3. (also water caltrop) an aquatic plant (Trapa natans, family Trapaceae) with small white flowers, producing an edible rounded seed with two large projecting horns.

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water chestnut

A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition | 2005 | | Copyright

water chestnut Seeds of Trapa natans and T. bicornis; see chestnut.

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water chestnut

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

water chestnut see sedge .

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water chestnut

A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | Copyright

water chestnut See ELEOCHARIS.

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MICHAEL ALLABY. "water chestnut." A Dictionary of Plant Sciences. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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Free newspaper and magazine articles

	They're not bland. Fresh water chestnuts are a taste discovery. (recipes) Magazine article from: Sunset; 8/1/1991
	DON'T MIND THE MUD ON THOSE FRESH WATER CHESTNUTS.(FLAVOR) Newspaper article from: The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA); 4/16/1997
	Water chestnut.(Brief article) Magazine article from: New York State Conservationist; 10/1/2009