AUSTRALIAN CHESTNUT

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Meaning:

Australian tree having pinnate leaves and orange-yellow flowers followed by large woody pods containing 3 or 4 seeds that resemble chestnuts; yields dark strong wood

Synonyms:

Australian chestnut; Moreton Bay chestnut

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Australian chestnut" is a kind of...):

bean tree (any of several trees having seedpods as fruits)

Holonyms ("Australian chestnut" is a member of...):

Castanospermum; genus Castanospermum (a rosid dicot genus of the subfamily Papilionoideae having one species: Moreton Bay chestnut)

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