Hyphenation of caltrop

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word caltrop? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

cal-trop

Definitions of caltrop:

1.	Tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets Serious pasture weed
2.	A plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
3.	Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales Naturalized in America

Synonyms of caltrop:

noun	devil's weed, Tribulus terestris, subshrub, suffrutex
noun	water chestnut, water chestnut plant, aquatic plant, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant
noun	star-thistle, Centauria calcitrapa, centaury

Last hyphenations of this language

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