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CHESTNUT TREE

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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:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("chestnut tree" 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 tree"):

chestnut (edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea)

Meronyms (substance of "chestnut tree"):

chestnut (wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chestnut tree"):

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 tree" is a member of...):

Castanea; genus Castanea (chestnuts; chinkapins)

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