Definitions for horse-chestnut

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horse-chestnut horse chestnut

Horse-Chestnut is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 1294 anagrams from letters in horse-chestnut (-ceehhnorssttu).

Definitions for horse-chestnut

noun

1. a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
2. the shiny, brown, nutlike seed of this tree or of other trees of the genus Aesculus.

Origin of horse-chestnut

1590-1600; translation of New Latin castanea equīna; so named from its use in treating respiratory diseases of horses

Examples for horse-chestnut

They are as sticky as horse-chestnut buds, and much nicer to eat.

The horse-chestnut is common, and then come a host of trees of minor growth.

And the apple-tree and the horse-chestnut and the elm—of course I like them.

horse-chestnut is another instance of the application of the term to plants.

She was perched on one of the highest branches of a horse-chestnut tree.

The little boys were in a horse-chestnut tree, at the side of the house.

You jump from the sill of the first landing window into the horse-chestnut.

Soon the wistaria would bloom, then the horse-chestnut; but not for her.

It consists of the word "Buckeye" with a branch of the buckeye (horse-chestnut) tree.

The horse-chestnut you mention in the garden was planted by my mother.