European chestnut

Other forms: European chestnuts

Definitions of European chestnut

1. noun

   wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia
   synonyms: Castanea sativa, Spanish chestnut, sweet chestnut

   type of:

   chestnut, chestnut tree

   any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur