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n. Any of various plants of the genera Tribulus and Kallstroemia, having spiny or tuberculate fruits.

n. A Mediterranean species of star thistle (Centaurea calcitrapa) naturalized in North America.

n. See water chestnut.

n. A metal device with four projecting spikes so arranged that when three of the spikes are on the ground, the fourth points upward, used as a hazard to pneumatic tires or to the hooves of horses.

n. A small, metal object with spikes arranged so that, when thrown onto the ground, one always faces up as a threat to passers-by.

n. The starthistle, Centaurea calcitrapa, a plant with sharp thorns.

n. A flowering plant, Tribulus terrestris, in the family Zygophyllaceae, native to warm temperate and tropical regions of the Old World.

n. A genus of herbaceous plants (Tribulus) of the order Zygophylleæ, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. The species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle.

n. An instrument with four iron points, so disposed that, any three of them being on the ground, the other projects upward. They are scattered on the ground where an enemy's cavalry are to pass, to impede their progress by endangering the horses' feet.

n. Formerly, a military instrument with four iron points disposed in such a manner that, three of them being on the ground, the fourth pointed upward. Caltrops were scattered on the ground where an enemy's cavalry were to pass, to impede their progress by wounding the horses' feet.

n. plural Broken pottery or coarse pots of easily broken earthenware, or other things adapted to wound horses' feet, used in place of caltrops proper.

n. In botany, a name of several plants.

To entangle with caltrops.

n. In the nomenclature of the spicular elements of sponges, a tetraxial spicule having the form of a caltrop, with four equal simple smooth arms radiating from a central point.

n. plural In entomology, the short, sharp, curved spines which occur in scattered groups in the integument of certain lepidopterous larvæ of the family Limacodidæ, and which are responsible for the urticating effect produced on the human skin by these larvæ.

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

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

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

"The pictures of the items seem consistent with the “caltrop” label."

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