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Horse chestnut   /hɔrs tʃˈɛsnˌət/   Listen
Horse chestnut

noun
1.
Tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds.  Synonyms: Aesculus hippocastanum, buckeye.
2.
The inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut.  Synonyms: buckeye, conker.





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"Horse chestnut" Quotes from Famous Books



... the sixteenth century—whose letters contain one of the best accounts of Turkish life which have appeared down to the present day—brought home from the Ottoman capital the lilac and the tulip. The Belgian Clusius about the same time introduced from the East the horse chestnut, which has since wandered to America. The weeping willows of Europe and the United States are said to have sprung from a slip received from Smyrna by the poet Pope; and planted by him in an English garden; Drouyn de ...
— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh


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