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caltrop

noun

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

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Word length
7
Starts with
C
Ends with
P
Contains
AL
Scrabble score
11

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noun

  1. Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America

noun

  1. A plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits

noun

  1. Tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed

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