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EUROPEAN CHESTNUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does European chestnut mean?
• EUROPEAN CHESTNUT (noun)
The noun EUROPEAN CHESTNUT has 1 sense:
1. wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia
Familiarity information: EUROPEAN CHESTNUT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Castanea sativa; European chestnut; Spanish chestnut; sweet chestnut
Hypernyms ("European chestnut" is a kind of...):
chestnut; chestnut tree (any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur)
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