Horse Chestnut Definition

hôrschesnut
noun
Any of a genus (Aesculus) of shrubs and trees of the horse-chestnut family, including buckeyes; esp., a tree (A. hippocastanum) with large, palmately compound leaves, clusters of white flowers, and glossy, brown seeds.
Webster's New World
A seed of this tree.
Webster's New World
Alternative spelling of horse chestnut.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adjective
Designating a family (Hippocastanaceae, order Sapindales) of dicotyledonous trees, including the horse chestnuts.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Horse Chestnut

Noun

Singular:
horse chestnut
Plural:
horse-chestnuts

Origin of Horse Chestnut

  • Perhaps from a former use to cure cough in horses

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Horse Chestnut Sentence Examples

  • In Saxifraga umbrosa (London-pride) and in the horse-chestnut we meet with a raceme of scorpioid cymes; in sea-pink, a capitulum of contracted scorpioid cymes (often called a glomerulus); in laurustinus, a compound umbel of dichasial cymes; a scorpioid cyme of capitula in Vernonia scorpioides.

  • Thus in the horse-chestnut there is an interposition of two stamens, and thus seven stamens are formed in the flower, which is asymmetrical.

  • In the last-mentioned case they are called declinate, as in amaryllis, horse-chestnut and fraxinella.

  • A shaft of brilliant sunlight fell through the dusty layers of a horse chestnut tree, landing on the velvet vows of her shoes.

  • A grove of horse chestnut trees may become an asset too valuable for small boys to plunder!

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