单词 | sweet chestnut |
释义 | sweet chestnut in British Englishnoun chestnut (sense 1) chestnut in British English (ˈtʃɛsˌnʌt) noun 1. any N temperate fagaceous tree of the genus Castanea, such as C. sativa (sweet or Spanish chestnut), which produce flowers in long catkins and nuts in a prickly bur Compare horse chestnut, water chestnut, dwarf chestnut2. the edible nut of any of these trees 3. the hard wood of any of these trees, used in making furniture, etc 4. a. a reddish-brown to brown colour b. (as adjective) chestnut hair 5. a horse of a yellow-brown or golden-brown colour 6. a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg 7. informal an old or stale joke Word origin C16: from earlier chesten nut: chesten, from Old French chastaigne, from Latin castanea, from Greek kastaneaExamples of 'sweet chestnut' in a sentence |
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