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CHESTNUT
chestnut
(adjective) (of hair or feathers) of a golden brown to reddish brown color; “a chestnut horse”; “chestnut hair”
chestnut
(noun) a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse
chestnut
(noun) a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse’s leg
chestnut
(noun) the brown color of chestnuts
chestnut
(noun) edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea
chestnut, chestnut tree
(noun) any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur
chestnut
(noun) wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
chestnut (countable and uncountable, plural chestnuts)
A tree or shrub of the genus Castanea.
The nut of this tree or shrub.
(uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour, as seen on the fruit of the chestnut tree.
A reddish-brown horse.
(uncountable) The wood of a chestnut tree.
(idiomatic) An old joke; a worn-out meme, phrase, ploy, etc. so often repeated as to have grown tiresome or ineffective (often in the phrase "old chestnut").
A round or oval horny plate found on the inner side of the leg of a horse or other animal, similar to a birthmark on a human.
Synonym: night eye
(UK) The horse-chestnut.
Synonyms
• (tree): chestnut tree
Adjective
chestnut (not comparable)
Of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut.
Anagrams
• Chesnutt
Proper noun
Chestnut (plural Chestnuts)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Chestnut is the 4478th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 7924 individuals. Chestnut is most common among White (55.88%) and Black/African American (39.64%) individuals.
Anagrams
• Chesnutt
Source: Wiktionary
Chest"nut, n. Etym: [For chesten-nut; OE. chestein, chesten, chastein, chestnut, fr. AS. cisten in cistenbeám chestnut tree, influenced by OF. chastaigne, F. châtaigne, both the AS. and the F. words coming from L. castanea a chestnut, Gr. Castanets.]
1. (Bot.)
Definition: The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesce) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.
2. The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc.
3. A bright brown color, like that of the nut.
4. The horse chestnut (often so used in England).
5. One of the round, or oval, horny plates on the inner sides of the legs of the horse, and allied animals.
6. An old joke or story. [Slang] Chestnut tree, a tree that bears chestnuts.
Chest"nut, a.
Definition: Of or pertaining of a chestnut; of a reddish brown color; as, chestnut curls.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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