water caltrop

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   a variety of water chestnut

   SynonymsJesuits' nutTrapa natans

   Broaderwater chestnut

Questions about water caltrop

What does water caltrop mean?

water caltrop means "a variety of water chestnut".

What is another word for water caltrop?

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

water caltrop 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.