water chestnut

English

Noun

water chestnut (countable and uncountable, plural water chestnuts)

(uncountable) Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis), grown for its edible corm, used in Asian cooking.
(countable) A corm of a plant of this species.
A water caltrop (Trapa natans).

Usage notes

The usage of water chestnut for the water caltrop is best avoided, so as to prevent confusion

Translations

Eleocharis dulcis

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Cantonese: 馬蹄 (yue), 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)
Danish: vandkastanje c
Finnish: vesikastanja
French: châtaigne d'eau chinoise (fr) f
German: Wasserkastanie f
Hindi: सिंघाड़ा (siṅghāṛā)
Italian: please add this translation if you can

Japanese: please add this translation if you can
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
Russian: болотница сладкая f (bolotnica sladkaja)
Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: castaña de agua china f
Swedish: vattenkastanj c
Tagalog: apulid
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: năn ngọt

corm of this species

Chinese:
Cantonese: 馬蹄 (yue), 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
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

water caltrop — see water caltrop

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