CALTROP

Definition:

1. [noun] tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed
   Synonyms: devil's weed, Tribulus terestris
   
   
2. [noun] a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
   Synonyms: water chestnut, water chestnut plant
   
   
3. [noun] Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America
   Synonyms: star-thistle, Centauria calcitrapa
   
   

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Related Words:

• water caltrop, Jesuits' nut, Trapa natans
• ling, ling ko, Trapa bicornis

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