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GENUS TRAPA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs: water chestnut
Synonyms:
genus Trapa; Trapa
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Trapa" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "genus Trapa"):
caltrop; water chestnut; water chestnut plant (a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits)
Holonyms ("genus Trapa" is a member of...):
family Trapaceae; Trapaceae (family comprising solely the genus Trapa; in some classifications treated as a subfamily or tribe of the family Onagraceae)
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