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- Traditional caltrops and mines from the Mongol Empire During service in World War I, Australian Light Horse troops collected caltrops as keepsakes....
- significantly upon wild water caltrops to supplement their normal diet and, in times of cultivated cereal crop failure, water caltrops may have been the main...
- Tribulus terrestris is an annual plant in the caltrop family (Zygophyllaceae) widely distributed around the world. It is adapted to thrive in dry climate...
- described as used by Julius Caesar. A more modern version of this are caltrops. P****ive fortification—ditches and obstacles such as dragon's teeth and...
- stones are likely predecessors of the shuriken. The clay caltrops preceded makibishi caltrops. Archeologist Iwata Akihiro of Saitama Prefectural Museum...
- throughout Africa, and Australia. It produces spiky seeds that are shaped like caltrops. Plants named Goat's head Seeds of Acanthospermum hispidum Fruit of Proboscidea...
- of sharpened sticks (also known as punji sticks), and the use of small caltrops have been a feature of anti-infantry warfare for centuries. They are known...
- Zygophyllaceae is a family of flowering plants that contains the bean-caper and caltrop. The family includes around 285 species in 22 genera. Plants in the family...
- appeared on the island's coinage. It may be understood to refer to the caltrop, a military device with one spike always pointing upwards. The motto itself...
- pots or small pouches containing combustible substances surrounded by caltrops or spikes, or launched by catapults, were used in the Greco-Roman world...