chinese water chestnut

Questions about chinese water chestnut

What is another word for chinese water chestnut?

It depends which chinese water chestnut you mean. In the sense “Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers”, the synonyms are water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of chinese water chestnut?

WordNet records no antonym for chinese water chestnut. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for chinese water chestnut come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of chinese water chestnut

• Full entry for chinese water chestnutAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for chinese water chestnutWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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