chestnut : Idioms & Phrases

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american chestnut

  • noun large tree found from Maine to Alabama
    American chestnut; Castanea dentata.
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american sweet chestnut

  • noun large tree found from Maine to Alabama
    American chestnut; Castanea dentata.
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australian chestnut

  • noun Australian tree having pinnate leaves and orange-yellow flowers followed by large woody pods containing 3 or 4 seeds that resemble chestnuts; yields dark strong wood
    Australian chestnut.
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chestnut blight

  • noun a disease of American chestnut trees
    chestnut canker; chestnut blight.
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chestnut canker

  • noun a disease of American chestnut trees
    chestnut canker; chestnut blight.
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chestnut oak

  • noun an oak having leaves resembling those of chestnut trees
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Chestnut tree

  • noun any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur
    chestnut.
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  • a tree that bears chestnuts.
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chestnut-bark disease

  • noun a disease of American chestnut trees
    chestnut canker; chestnut blight.
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chestnut-brown

  • adjective satellite (of hair or feathers) of brown tinged with chestnut
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chestnut-colored

  • adjective satellite having the brown color of chestnuts
    chestnut-colored.
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chestnut-coloured

  • adjective satellite having the brown color of chestnuts
    chestnut-colored.
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chinese chestnut

  • noun a small tree with small sweet nuts; wild or naturalized in Korea and China
    Castanea mollissima.
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chinese water chestnut

  • noun Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers
    Eleocharis dulcis; Chinese water chestnut.
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dwarf chestnut

  • noun shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts
    Castanea pumila; eastern chinquapin; chinquapin; Allegheny chinkapin.
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Earth chestnut

  • the pignut.
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european chestnut

  • noun wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia
    Castanea sativa; Spanish chestnut; European chestnut.
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horse chestnut

  • noun tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds
    Aesculus hippocastanum; buckeye.
  • noun the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut
    conker; buckeye.
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horse-chestnut

Horse`-chest"nut noun
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  1. (Bot.) (a) The large nutlike seed of a species of Æsculus (Æ. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name. (b) The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes.
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horse-chestnut family

  • noun trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule
    family Hippocastanaceae; Hippocastanaceae.
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japanese chestnut

  • noun a spreading tree of Japan that has a short trunk
    Castanea crenata.
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liver chestnut

  • noun a solid dark brown horse
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moreton bay chestnut

  • noun Australian tree having pinnate leaves and orange-yellow flowers followed by large woody pods containing 3 or 4 seeds that resemble chestnuts; yields dark strong wood
    Australian chestnut.
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oak chestnut

  • noun a tree of the genus Castanopsis
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rose chestnut

  • noun handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties
    ironwood tree; Mesua ferrea; ironwood.
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spanish chestnut

  • noun wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia
    Castanea sativa; Spanish chestnut; European chestnut.
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swamp chestnut oak

  • noun medium to large deciduous tree of moist areas of southeastern United States similar to the basket oak
    Quercus michauxii.
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sweet chestnut

  • noun wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia
    Castanea sativa; Spanish chestnut; European chestnut.
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water chestnut

  • noun a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
    caltrop; water chestnut.
  • noun Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers
    Eleocharis dulcis; Chinese water chestnut.
  • noun edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant
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Wa"ter chest"nut
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  1. (Bot.) The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop.
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water chestnut plant

  • noun a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
    caltrop; water chestnut.
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yellow chestnut oak

  • noun medium-sized deciduous tree of the eastern United States that yields a strong durable wood
    chinquapin oak; Quercus muehlenbergii; chinkapin oak.
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