AUSTRALIAN CHESTNUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Australian chestnut mean? 

• AUSTRALIAN CHESTNUT (noun)
  The noun AUSTRALIAN CHESTNUT has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: AUSTRALIAN CHESTNUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUSTRALIAN CHESTNUT (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Australian chestnut; Moreton Bay chestnut

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)

 Context examples 

A 6-0-butanoyl ester derivative of castanospermine, a compound derived from the Australian chestnut with activity against hepatitis C virus.

(Celgosivir, NCI Thesaurus)