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:
“All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must now take their stand against this consolidating, corrupting money power, and put it down, or their children will become hewers of wood and drawers of water to this aristocratic ragocracy.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)