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botanist Carl Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum in 1753. The generic name Trapa is derived from a late Latin word for a caltrop, calcitrappa, an area denial weapon. The specific name natans is the Latin for swimming or floating, from the verb natare, "to swim". There are eight named varieties of T. natans. The Scottish surgeon and botanist William Roxburgh described Trapa bispinosa

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