About The Word Horse-chestnut
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Horse-chestnut
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What's The Definition Of Horse-chestnut?
[n] tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds
[n] the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut Synonyms | Synonyms for Horse-chestnut: Aesculus hippocastanum | buckeye | conker Related Terms | Find terms related to Horse-chestnut: See Also | Aesculus | angiospermous tree | bottlebrush buckeye | dwarf buckeye | flowering tree | genus Aesculus | Ohio buckeye | particolored buckeye | red buckeye | seed | sweet buckeye Horse-chestnut In Webster's Dictionary \Horse`-chest"nut\, n. (Bot.)
(a) The large nutlike seed of a species of {[AE]sculus}
({[AE]. 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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