English
Wikispecies
Pronunciation
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 / 马蹄 (yue) (ma5 tai4-2)
- Hakka: 馬薺 / 马荠 (mâ-chhì)
- Hokkien: 馬薺 / 马荠 (zh-min-nan) (bé-chî)
- Mandarin: 荸薺 / 荸荠 (zh) (bíqí), 馬蹄 / 马蹄 (zh) (mǎtí), 葧薺 / 葧荠 (zh) (bóqí), 鳧茨 / 凫茨 (fúcí), 鳧茈 / 凫茈 (zh) (fúcí), 地栗 (dìlì), 烏芋 / 乌芋 (zh) (wūyù)
- Danish: vandkastanje c
- Finnish: vesikastanja
- French: châtaigne d'eau chinoise (fr) f
- German: Wasserkastanie f
- Hindi: सिंघाड़ा (siṅghāṛā)
- Irish: castán uisce m
- Italian: please add this translation if you can
- Japanese: 白慈姑
- Korean: 남방개 (nambanggae)
- Lao: ແຫ້ວ (hǣu)
- 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 (sv) c
- Tagalog: apulid
- Thai: แห้ว (th) (hɛ̂o)
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: năn ngọt
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