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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 Asiaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


EUROPEAN CHESTNUT (noun)


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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