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chestnut

Related topics: Plants, Cooking, Colours, Animals
chest·nut1 /ˈtʃesnʌt/ noun  
1  [countableC]HBPDFC a smooth red-brown nut that you can eat 栗子
 roast chestnuts
炒栗子
→5 see picture at 见图 nut1
2. (also chestnut tree) [countableC]HBP the tree on which this nut grows 栗子树
3. [uncountableU]CC a red-brown colour 栗色，红棕色
4. [countableC]HBA a horse that is red-brown in colour 红棕色的马，栗色马
5. an old chestnut JOKEa joke or story that has been repeated many times 老掉牙的笑话[故事]
6. [countableC]HBP a horse chestnut 七叶树；七叶树的果实
→ water chestnut
Examples from the Corpus
chestnut• High above, curved oak, spruce and chestnut grew beside giant magnolias.• Already, two mature horse chestnuts had been felled.• There's a big house at the end of an avenue of chestnuts.• I wave some smoke away and ask if he's selling roast chestnuts.• In the embers of the fire, David again roasted chestnuts for the now sunny-tempered Josh, until his bedtime.• He got up in his night-shirt and looked incredulously out at the twigs of the stately chestnut tree in front of the castle.• The chestnuts must be peeled first, which is a little time consuming but worth the effort.
Related topics: Colours
chestnut2 adjectiveadj  
CCred-brown in colour 栗色的，红棕色的
 her chestnut hair
她的红棕色头发
Examples from the Corpus
chestnut• The chestnut colt stuck its head in through the open window to lick her hand with its warm tongue.• Her face was framed by chestnut curls.
Origin chestnut1
(1500-1600) chesten “chestnut tree” ((14-17 centuries)) (from Old French chasteigne, from Latin castanea, from Greek kastanea) + nut
chest·nut1 nounchestnut2 adjectiveadj
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