caltrops

Meanings

Noun

• tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed
• a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
• Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America
• plural of caltrop

Synonyms

caltrop, Centauria calcitrapa, devil's weed, star-thistle, Tribulus terestris, water chestnut, water chestnut plant