chestnut

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: chestnut

1	n	any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur
2	n adj	the brown color of chestnuts (of hair or feathers) of a golden brown to reddish brown color
3	n	a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: chestnut

Types:: show 6 types...; hide 6 types...; American chestnut, American sweet chestnut, Castanea dentata
large tree found from Maine to Alabama; Castanea sativa, European chestnut, Spanish chestnut, sweet chestnut
wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia; Castanea mollissima, Chinese chestnut
a small tree with small sweet nuts; wild or naturalized in Korea and China; Castanea crenata, Japanese chestnut
a spreading tree of Japan that has a short trunk; Allegheny chinkapin, Castanea pumila, chinquapin, dwarf chestnut, eastern chinquapin
shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts; Castanea ozarkensis, Ozark chinkapin, Ozark chinquapin, chinquapin
shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States

Type of:: tree
a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

Type of:: edible nut
a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell

Type of:: Equus caballus, horse
solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

“a chestnut horse”

“chestnut hair”

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