AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aesculus hippocastanum mean? 

• AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM (noun)
  The noun AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM has 1 sense:

1. tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds

  Familiarity information: AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Aesculus hippocastanum; buckeye; horse chestnut

Hypernyms ("Aesculus hippocastanum" is a kind of...):

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Aesculus hippocastanum"):

sweet buckeye (a tall and often cultivated buckeye of the central United States)

Ohio buckeye (a buckeye with scaly grey bark that is found in the central United States)

bottlebrush buckeye; dwarf buckeye (a spreading shrub with pink flowers; found in southeastern United States)

red buckeye (a shrub buckeye of southern United States)

particolored buckeye (a buckeye marked by different colors or tints)

Holonyms ("Aesculus hippocastanum" is a member of...):

Aesculus; genus Aesculus (deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asia)

 Context examples 

The oil extracted from the seeds of Aesculus hippocastanum.

(Aesculus hippocastanum Seed Fluid Extract, NCI Thesaurus)