horse-chestnut

Noun

Meaning

The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name.

The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

horse chestnut

Synonyms

buckeye conker Aesculus hippocastanum conker tree chestnut red sorrel chestnut tree horse-chestnut Spanish chestnut chesnut horse chestnut tree Ohio buckeye conkers angiospermous tree

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Hypernyms

seed angiospermous tree flowering tree

Hyponyms

Ohio buckeye sweet buckeye dwarf buckeye bottlebrush buckeye particolored buckeye red buckeye

Close letter words and terms

horse- trading horse-bell horse-block horse-chestnut family horse-cover horse-drawn