English
Wikispecies
Noun
water chestnut (countable and uncountable, plural water chestnuts)
- (uncountable) Eleocharis dulcis, grown for its edible corm, used in Asian cooking.
- (countable) A corm of a plant of this species.
- A water caltrop.
Usage notes
- The usage of water chestnut for the water caltrop is best avoided, so as to prevent confusion
Translations
Eleocharis dulcis
- Arabic:
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 馬蹄, 马蹄 (ma5 tai4⁻2)
- Hakka: 馬薺, 马荠 (mâ-chhì)
- Mandarin: 荸薺 (zh), 荸荠 (zh) (bíqí), 馬蹄 (zh), 马蹄 (zh) (mǎtí), 葧薺 (zh), 葧荠 (zh) (bóqí), 鳧茨, 凫茨 (fúcí), 鳧茈 (zh), 凫茈 (zh) (fúcí), 地栗 (zh) (dìlì), 烏芋 (zh), 乌芋 (zh) (wūyù)
- Min Nan: 馬薺 (zh-min-nan), 马荠 (bé-chî)
- Finnish: vesikastanja
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- French: châtaigne d'eau chinoise (fr) f
- German: Wasserkastanie f
- Hindi: सिंघाड़ा (siṅghāṛā)
- Russian: болотница сладкая f (bolotnica sladkaja)
- Spanish: castaña de agua china f
- Swedish: vattenkastanj c
- Tagalog: apulid
- Vietnamese: năn ngọt
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