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Horsechestnut

Horse-chestnut \Horse`-chest"nut\, Horsechestnut \Horse`chest"nut\, n.

  1. (Bot.) The large nutlike seed of a species of [AE]sculus ( [AE]sculus Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name. The seed is not considered edible by humans. [WordNet sense 2]

  2. (Bot.) The tree itself ( Aesculus hippocastanum), which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres; it has palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds. The native American species is also called buckeye and conker. [WordNet sense 1]

Usage examples of "horsechestnut".

And I note that Miss Cavendish has one of those big, deep navels, the kind that you could keep a horsechestnut in.

A blue cloud streamed parallel to the long stem, was divided by the bowl, bright as a horsechestnut newly split from its husk, and joined again in lazy assault upon the unappreciative nostrils of Pumphrey, who coughed pointedly and swung his head aside.