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  • Vegan bakers say modern breakthroughs, from the use of coconut oil to water-chestnut flour, have revolutionized the field.

    Is That Cupcake Vegan or Just Butter- and Egg-Free? Katy McLaughlin 2011

  • The color and edging of the eyes could also have significance, and each combination had a name such as “water-chestnut eyes,” “leopard-eyes,” or “dragon-eyes”.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • The color and edging of the eyes could also have significance, and each combination had a name such as “water-chestnut eyes,” “leopard-eyes,” or “dragon-eyes”.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • The color and edging of the eyes could also have significance, and each combination had a name such as “water-chestnut eyes,” “leopard-eyes,” or “dragon-eyes”.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • The color and edging of the eyes could also have significance, and each combination had a name such as “water-chestnut eyes,” “leopard-eyes,” or “dragon-eyes”.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • A handy water-chestnut tree provided ample drink: all they had to do was pluck the fresh chestnuts and puncture them to extract the water.

    The Source of Magic Anthony, Piers 1979

  • To pick the water-chestnut and the lotus-flower with a quick, light hand!

    Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

  • The water-chestnut pickers are singing, a simple song unaccompanied by instruments – but joy is unbearable.

    Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

  • Once I was as full of romance as a water-chestnut is of starch.

    Parrot & Co. Harold MacGrath 1901

  • In the Laramie beds I determined many years ago nuts of the _Trapa_ or water-chestnut, and subsequently Lesquereux found in beds in the United States leaves which he referred to the same genus.

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

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