trapa natans

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   a variety of water chestnut

   Synonymswater caltropJesuits' nut

   Broaderwater chestnut

Questions about trapa natans

What does trapa natans mean?

trapa natans means "a variety of water chestnut".

What is another word for trapa natans?

Close synonyms include water caltrop, Jesuits' nut. 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 trapa natans a common word?

trapa natans 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.