NOUN
- tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed
- a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
- Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America
How To Use caltrop In A Sentence
- It was a combination of towers, palisades, ditches, abatis, and caltrops to slow the attacking Gauls.
- Caltrop is a perennial herb that can infest a wide variety of crops and pastures.
- A caltrop is a military device consisting of four metal spikes arranged so that, whichever way it falls, at least one spike points upwards.
- It was a combination of towers, palisades, ditches, abatis, and caltrops to slow the attacking Gauls, so that Roman missile engines could more effectively engage them.
- Lotus Lake used to be a huge basin surrounded by a lotus and water caltrop field, causing it to become the habitat of pheasant-tailed jacanas.
- Aquatic plants associated with the fascioliasis infection are watercress and water caltrop. Chapter 2
- No matter how the caltrop tire spike was tossed on a roadway or airport runway, it would land with a tire-puncturing prong facing upward.
- Wash and finely chop chillies and fermented black beans, set aside. Rinse and dress the crabs, remove the innards. Chop into pieces, coat in some caltrop starch.
- In some few caterpillars the poison spines take the form of balls armed with short prickles and one large spike; hence they are known as caltrop spines (fig. 2, C), from their likeness to the cruel weapons, known as caltrops, which used to be scattered over the ground in time of war to repel the attacks of cavalry; the spikes forced their way into the horses 'feet when trampled on, and so disabled them. Chatterbox, 1905.
- The village sits in Taiwan's breadbasket, a land of flat, expansive rice and sugar-cane fields, lingjiao water caltrop paddies, and banana trees. Two by Adams
