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- DictionaryChest·nut/ˈCHes(t)ˌnət/
noun
- 1. a glossy brown nut that may be roasted and eaten.
- 2. the large European tree that produces the edible chestnut, which develops within a bristly case, with serrated leaves and heavy timber.
The meaning of CHESTNUT is any of a genus (Castanea) of trees or shrubs of the beech family; especially : an American tree (C. dentata) that was formerly a dominant or codominant member of many deciduous forests of the eastern U.S. but has now been largely eliminated by the chestnut blight and seldom grows beyond the shrub or sapling stage.
CHESTNUT definition: 1. a large tree with leaves divided into five parts and large, round nuts: 2. a large, brown nut…. Learn more.
Chestnut definition: any of the several deciduous trees constituting the genus Castanea, of the beech family, having toothed, oblong leaves and bearing edible nuts enclosed in a prickly bur, and including C. dentata (American chestnut ), which has been virtually destroyed by the chestnut blight, C. sativa (European chestnut ),C. mollissima ...
Description. Chestnut trees are of moderate growth rate (for the Chinese chestnut tree) to fast-growing for American and European species. [4] Their mature heights vary from the smallest species of chinkapins, often shrubby, [5] to the giant of past American forests, C. dentata that could reach 60 metres (200 feet).
1. countable noun. A chestnut or chestnut tree is a tall tree with broad leaves. Chestnut is the wood of this tree. 2. See also horse chestnut. 3. countable noun. Chestnuts are the reddish-brown nuts that grow on chestnut trees. You can eat chestnuts. 4. colour. Something that is chestnut is dark reddish-brown in colour.
n. 1. any of several tall trees of the genus Castanea, of the beech family, bearing edible nuts enclosed in a prickly bur, as C. sativa, of Europe, and C.dentata, an American tree virtually destroyed by chestnut blight. 2. the edible nut of such a tree. 3. the wood of any of these trees.
any of the several deciduous trees constituting the genus Castanea, of the beech family, having toothed, oblong leaves and bearing edible nuts enclosed in a prickly bur, and including C. dentata (American chestnut), which has been virtually destroyed by the chestnut blight, C. sativa (European chestnut), C. mollissima (Chinese chestnut), and C ...
a nut that has a shiny, red-brown surface and is white inside, or the tree that produces these nuts: roasted chestnuts.
Definition of chestnut noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definitions of chestnut. noun. any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur. synonyms: chestnut tree. see more. noun. wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea. see more. noun. edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea. see more. noun.
