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Definition of horse-chestnut

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1. horse_chestnut [ n ] tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds

Used in print:

(John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)

But the shelter is as_much a part of my landscape as the beech and horse-chestnut trees that grow on the ridge .

Synonyms horse_chestnut Aesculus_hippocastanum buckeye Related Terms angiospermous_tree sweet_buckeye dwarf_buckeye red_buckeye particolored_buckeye Ohio_buckeye Aesculus

2. horse_chestnut [ n ] the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut

Synonyms horse_chestnut conker buckeye Related Terms seed

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