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Meaning of caltrop in English
Pronunciation
/ˈkæltrəp/
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Noun
caltrop
Etymology
Old English calcatrippe, denoting any plant which tended to catch the feet, from medieval Latin calcatrippa, from calx‘heel’ or calcare‘to tread’ + a word related to trap. caltrop (sense 1) was probably adopted from French
Definitions
1.
tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets
Examples
« serious pasture weed »
2.
a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
3.
Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales
Examples
« naturalized in America »