chinese water chestnut

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   Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers

   Synonymswater chestnutEleocharis dulcis

   Broaderspike rush

   Partswater chestnut

Questions about chinese water chestnut

What does chinese water chestnut mean?

chinese water chestnut means "Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers".

What is another word for chinese water chestnut?

Close synonyms include water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chinese water chestnut a common word?

chinese water chestnut is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.