CHESTNUT


Meaning of CHESTNUT in English

n. & adj.

--n.

1. a a glossy hard brown edible nut. b the tree Castanea sativa, bearing flowers in catkins and nuts enclosed in a spiny fruit. Also called Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut.

2 any other tree of the genus Castanea.

3 horse chestnut.

4 (in full chestnut-wood) the heavy wood of any chestnut tree.

5 a horse of a reddish-brown or yellowish-brown colour.

6 colloq. a stale joke or anecdote.

7 a small hard patch on a horse's leg.

8 a reddish-brown colour.

--adj. of the colour chestnut.

Phrases and idioms:

liver chestnut a dark kind of chestnut horse.

Etymology: obs. chesten f. OF chastaine f. L castanea f. Gk kastanea

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.