water chestnut

English

Chinese water chestnut corms, Eleocharis dulcis

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Noun

water chestnut (countable and uncountable, plural water chestnuts)

1. (uncountable) Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis), grown for its edible corm, used in Asian cooking.
2. (countable) A corm of a plant of this species.
3. 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 tai^4-2)

  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)
• 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: 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 / 马蹄 (yue) (ma⁵ tai^4-2)

  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)

• Finnish: vesikastanja
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: vattenkastanj (sv) c
• Zhuang: maxdaez, lwgcid, lwgcwd

water caltrop — see water caltrop