Water Chestnut

Water chestnut may refer to either of two plants (both sometimes used in Chinese cuisine):

  • The Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis), eaten for its crisp corm
  • The Water caltrop (Trapa natans), eaten for its starchy seed

Famous quotes containing the word water:

    I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
    While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
    I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)