caltrop

noun

Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales

a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits

tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets

Roots

calxcal- · Latin · heel trappatrop- · Latin · trap, snare

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