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  • n  wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea
  • n  any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur
  • n  edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea
  • n  the brown color of chestnuts
  • n  a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg
  • n  a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse
  • s  (of hair or feathers) of a golden brown to reddish brown color
    a chestnut horse
    chestnut hair

  • Last week a hardy old chestnut, still to be cracked, was picked over for the umpteenth time.
  • The American chestnut tree used to flourish from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, from the Canadian frontier to North Carolina.
  • The man who boasts about gathering chestnuts as a barefoot boy is usually owning up to getting on in years.
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