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Chinese water chestnut

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water chestnutnoun(uncountable) Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis), grown for its edible corm, used in Asian cooking.
eleocharis dulcisEleocharis dulcis, the Chinese water chestnut or water chestnut, is a grass-like sedge native to Asia, tropical Africa, and Oceania.
chinese quincenounFlowering quince (Chaenomeles lagenaria, syn. Chaenomeles speciosa), native to Japan and Korea, introduced elsewhere as an ornamental.
spikerushnounThe aquatic sedge Eleocharis palustris.
apulidnounThe water chestnut
chinese spinachnounAny of several plants grown as leaf vegetables:
chinese trumpet vinenounCampsis grandiflora.
yellowhornnounXanthoceras sorbifolium, the Chinese flowering chestnut.
sea chestnutnounA sea urchin.
white poplarnounAny tree of several species of genus Populus of poplars:
chinese lanternnounA paper lantern in bright colours used for decorative purposes, commonly painted with Chinese art and calligraphy motifs; some float in the air like hot-air balloons, and some float on water.
chinese swamp cypressnounA deciduous tree of species Glyptostrobus pensilis, native to subtropical parts of southeastern China.
china asternounCallistephus chinensis, an ornamental plant native to China.
reedmacenounA water plant, the cattail.
string sedgenounA sedge of species Carex chordorrhiza.
ehuawanounCyperus laevigatus, a species of sedge.
water-lettucenounTropical duckweed, water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes).
china rootnounAn East Asian plant of species Smilax glabra and the drugs made from the root, used in traditional Chinese medicine and formerly as a treatment for syphilis.
canadian waterweednounThe pondweed Elodea canadensis.
chinquapinnounAny of certain species of tree in the chestnut genus Castanea:

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