About The Word Horse-chestnut

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Horse-chestnut

Horse-chestnut Meaning & Definition
Horse-chestnut Definition And Meaning

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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