water chestnut
英式
- the crisp, white-fleshed tuber of a tropical sedge, used especially in Chinese cooking.;the sedge that yields the water chestnut, which is cultivated in flooded fields in SE Asia.
noun: Chinese water chestnut, plural noun: Chinese water chestnuts
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. the crisp, white-fleshed tuber of a tropical sedge, used especially in Chinese cooking.
- 2. the sedge that yields the water chestnut, which is cultivated in flooded fields in SE Asia.
- 3. an aquatic plant with small white flowers, producing an edible rounded seed with two large projecting horns.