Water Chestnut
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| Chinese water chestnut | |
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| Illustration c. 1880[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Taxonomy template does not specify a parent (fix): | Eleocharis |
| Species: | E. dulcis
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| Eleocharis dulcis | |
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Water Chestnut - edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant; Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers; a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
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