| chestnut | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. chestnut | wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea. |
| ~ chestnut tree, chestnut | any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur. |
| ~ wood | the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees. |
| n. (plant) | 2. chestnut, chestnut tree | any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur. |
| ~ chestnut | edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea. |
| ~ castanea, genus castanea | chestnuts; chinkapins. |
| ~ chestnut | wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea. |
| ~ american chestnut, american sweet chestnut, castanea dentata | large tree found from Maine to Alabama. |
| ~ castanea sativa, european chestnut, spanish chestnut, sweet chestnut | wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia. |
| ~ castanea mollissima, chinese chestnut | a small tree with small sweet nuts; wild or naturalized in Korea and China. |
| ~ castanea crenata, japanese chestnut | a spreading tree of Japan that has a short trunk. |
| ~ allegheny chinkapin, castanea pumila, dwarf chestnut, eastern chinquapin, chinquapin | shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts. |
| ~ castanea ozarkensis, chinquapin, ozark chinkapin, ozark chinquapin | shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States. |
| ~ tree | a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms. |
| n. (food) | 3. chestnut | edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea. |
| ~ edible nut | a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell. |
| ~ chestnut tree, chestnut | any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur. |
| n. (attribute) | 4. chestnut | the brown color of chestnuts. |
| ~ brown, brownness | an orange of low brightness and saturation. |
| n. (animal) | 5. chestnut | a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg. |
| ~ callus | bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone. |
| n. (animal) | 6. chestnut | a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse. |
| ~ equus caballus, horse | solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times. |
| adj. | 7. chestnut | (of hair or feathers) of a golden brown to reddish brown color.; "a chestnut horse"; "chestnut hair" |
| ~ chromatic | being or having or characterized by hue. |
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