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n. (plural of water chestnut English)
Usage examples of "water chestnuts".
And after Sunny moved aside three chunks of cold cheese, a large can of water chestnuts, and an eggplant as big as herself, she finally found a small jar of boysenberry jam, and a loaf of bread she could use to make toast, although it was so cold it felt more like a log than a breakfast ingredient.
And you doter lettuce, water chestnuts, mandarin orange sections and Now he did look at her, a brief flash from those dark eyes, slivered almonds, and top it off with poppy-seed dressing.
The six of them began trading stuff back and forth - spareribs, moo goo gaipan, chicken wings that had been delicately braised, egg rolls, water chestnuts wrapped in bacon, strips of beef that had been threaded onto wooden skewers.
Hors doeuvres consisting of crab soup, sesame prawn toast, and spring rolls had been followed by sea-spiced prawns with oyster sauce and water chestnuts.
Conversation concerning water chestnuts and double-fudge-cake brownies stopped abruptly.
The shogun sat at the head of the table, eating sparingly at a weak soup with bean sprouts and water chestnuts, washed down with a small bowl of fragrant, bitter tea.
Doc had chosen a fiery sauce of mixed chilies with spit-roasted prawns and fried rice, with more of the ubiquitous water chestnuts.
His mood improved as he lifted a cover to reveal a combination of what appeared to be chicken livers and water chestnuts.
Handfuls of pea pods, water chestnuts, and some red stuff I didn't recognize flew into the empty wok.
What I'll do, I'll send Junior off, when the time is ripe, to invest it all in bean sprouts, water chestnuts, almonds, candied ginger and wonton, and we'll choke it all down aboard this fifty-four feet of decadent luxury afloat, and play your fool records and all tell lies.
It consists of cooked brown rice, mushrooms, water chestnuts, and other flavorful veggies.
The textures were sort of Oriental, with crisp things like water chestnuts and gummy things like sukiyaki lending variety to the crunch of lettuce and the plasticity of starches.
He looked at her plate-tomatoes, beans, water chestnuts, pieces of onion, peppers.
But as the Baudelaires sat at the table and ate their supper, they were not in the mood to digest the mixture of chicken, vegetables, fancy mushrooms, fresh ginger, coconut milk and water chestnuts that the hunchback had prepared.