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CHESTNUT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("chestnut" is a kind of...):
Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("chestnut" is a kind of...):
callus (bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The brown color of chestnuts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("chestnut" is a kind of...):
brown; brownness (an orange of low brightness and saturation)
Derivation:
chestnut ((of hair or feathers) of a golden brown to reddish brown color)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("chestnut" is a kind of...):
edible nut (a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell)
Holonyms ("chestnut" is a part of...):
chestnut; chestnut tree (any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur
Synonyms:
chestnut; chestnut tree
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("chestnut" is a kind of...):
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Meronyms (parts of "chestnut"):
chestnut (edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea)
Meronyms (substance of "chestnut"):
chestnut (wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chestnut"):
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; chinquapin; dwarf chestnut; eastern 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)
Holonyms ("chestnut" is a member of...):
Castanea; genus Castanea (chestnuts; chinkapins)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("chestnut" is a kind of...):
wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)
Holonyms ("chestnut" is a substance of...):
chestnut; chestnut tree (any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of hair or feathers) of a golden brown to reddish brown color
Example:
chestnut hair
Classified under:
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
Derivation:
chestnut (the brown color of chestnuts)
Context examples:
"Jane," he recommenced, as we entered the laurel walk, and slowly strayed down in the direction of the sunk fence and the horse-chestnut, "Thornfield is a pleasant place in summer, is it not?"
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A cold and melancholy walk of a couple of miles brought us to a high wooden gate, which opened into a gloomy avenue of chestnuts.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The ears are long with abundant feathering, and it has a silky coat, sometimes with a slight waviness that comes in ruby, black and tan, tri-color and blenheim (chestnut on a pearly-white background).
(Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)
Looking down I saw a stately carriage and pair, the brilliant lamps gleaming on the glossy haunches of the noble chestnuts.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A 6-0-butanoyl ester derivative of castanospermine, a compound derived from the Australian chestnut with activity against hepatitis C virus.
(Celgosivir, NCI Thesaurus)
As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of sacrificing it in this offhand fashion.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One day in early spring he had so far relaxed as to go for a walk with me in the Park, where the first faint shoots of green were breaking out upon the elms, and the sticky spear-heads of the chestnuts were just beginning to burst into their five-fold leaves.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Its windows opening to the ground, admitted a most refreshing view of the high woody hills behind the house, and of the beautiful oaks and Spanish chestnuts which were scattered over the intermediate lawn.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The method is this: in an acre of ground you bury, at six inches distance and eight deep, a quantity of acorns, dates, chestnuts, and other mast or vegetables, whereof these animals are fondest; then you drive six hundred or more of them into the field, where, in a few days, they will root up the whole ground in search of their food, and make it fit for sowing, at the same time manuring it with their dung: it is true, upon experiment, they found the charge and trouble very great, and they had little or no crop.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He came in gorgeous array, with plumed cap, red cloak, chestnut lovelocks, a guitar, and the boots, of course.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
