Water chestnuts

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Name (Latin)
Water chestnuts
Other forms of name
Trapa (Plants)
Water caltrops
nne Water chestnut
Waterchestnuts
Waternuts
See Also From tracing topical name
Trapaceae
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q161110
Library of congress: sh 85145540
Sources of Information
  • Ind. nom. gen. (plant.)(Trapa Linnaeus, Trapaceae)
  • Engler Syl. Pflanz.:v. 2, p. a348 (Trapa, Trapaceae)
  • Terrell check. names 3,000 vasc. plants econ. import.(Trapa L. (Trapaceae))
  • Web. 3(Trapa) (water chestnut 1.a: plant of genus Trapa (esp. T. natans and T. bicornis) b.: the edible nutlike spiny-angled fruit of a water chestnut) (water caltrop 1: water chestnut)
  • Random House(water chestnut. 1. any aquatic plant of the genus Trapa, bearing an edible, nutlike fruit, esp. T. natans of the Old World. 2. the fruit itself. Also called water caltrop)
  • SPN(Trapa)
  • Hortus 3(Trapa L. Waternut, Water chestnut Trapaceae)
  • CAB thes.(Trapa Trapaceae)
  • Howes dict. useful and everyday plants(Water chestnut. Trapa spp., cult for ed. starchy seeds)