chestnut
- IPA[ˈCHes(t)ˌnət]
美式
- a glossy brown nut that may be roasted and eaten.；a deep reddish-brown color
noun: chestnut, plural noun: chestnuts
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- 1. a glossy brown nut that may be roasted and eaten.
- ▪ a deep reddish-brown color chestnut hair
- ▪ a horse of a reddish-brown color, with a brown mane and tail a chestnut stallion
- 2. the large European tree that produces the edible chestnut, which develops within a bristly case, with serrated leaves and heavy timber.
- ▪ a related tree (C. dentata), which succumbed to a fungus bark disease in the early 1900s. Once prolific in the eastern US, very few large specimens survived.
- ▪ a related tree (C. mollissima) native to China and Korea, cultivated elsewhere for its edible nut. The flowers have a putrid odor.
- ▪ short for horse chestnut
- ▪ used in names of trees and plants that are related to the sweet chestnut or that produce similar nuts, e.g., water chestnut.
- 3. a small horny patch on the inside of each of a horse's legs.
- the crisp, white-fleshed tuber of a tropical sedge, used especially in Chinese cooking.
Oxford Dictionary
- the crisp, white-fleshed tuber of a tropical sedge, used especially in Chinese cooking.
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- an affluent suburban area west of Boston in Massachusetts, partly in Brookline and partly in Newton.
Oxford American Dictionary
- a deciduous tree with large leaves of five leaflets, conspicuous sticky winter buds, and ...
Oxford American Dictionary
- a deciduous tree with large leaves of five leaflets, conspicuous sticky winter buds, and ...
Oxford Dictionary
- of a deep reddish-brown colour: chestnut-coloured cattle
Oxford Dictionary
- a horse of a dark chestnut colour.
Oxford Dictionary
- a horse of a dark chestnut color.
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- a glossy hard brown edible nut which develops within a bristly case and which may be roasted ...
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