CHESTNUT TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chestnut tree mean? 

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

1. any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHESTNUT TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

chestnut; chestnut tree

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)

 Context examples 

The spring of 1803 was an early one, and the middle of April saw the leaves thick upon the chestnut trees.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And what ailed the chestnut tree? it writhed and groaned; while wind roared in the laurel walk, and came sweeping over us.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Staring up into the green gloom of the horse-chestnut trees above him, he dreamed dreams of all sorts, and was just imagining himself tossing on the ocean in a voyage round the world, when the sound of voices brought him ashore in a flash.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Come! we'll talk over the voyage and the parting quietly half-an-hour or so, while the stars enter into their shining life up in heaven yonder: here is the chestnut tree: here is the bench at its old roots.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)