buckeye
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- noun
- /ˈbʌkaɪ/
- US
:
semilla de castaño de indias
- Gibbs stared off at a windbreak of buckeye chestnuts, his heart throttling, the dry rattle of the few leaves still on the branches.
- buckeye nut
Examples
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A buckeye is a nut.
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A buckeye is a hairless nut!
Blog text (13) -
Anyone know what a buckeye is? -
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Now, if I look at a buckeye ball, I gain weight.
Blog text (24) -
I give her another one, and she scoots off my bed with each hand wrapped around a smooth buckeye.
Fiction book (1998) -
A buckeye.
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But the paper bag gradually becomes heavy, and then each buckeye makes a quiet thunk against the growing mound inside the sack.
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A buckeye is a nut that people often find on the ground during autumn.
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Children enjoy collecting buckeyes during fall walks in the park.
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He found a shiny buckeye while hiking and thought it looked beautiful.
Synonyms
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A hard, shiny brown seed from the horse chestnut tree that you cannot eat
A glossy brown seed in a spiky green husk that you cannot eat
Compounds
A spreading shrub from the southeastern United States with spikes of bright pink or white flowers like a bottlebrush
A small spreading shrub from the southeastern United States with bright pink flower clusters
- Specialized
A tree with scaly grey bark that loses its leaves and makes round brown nuts
A tall tree from the central United States often planted for its yellow flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Buckeye for the seed comes from buck ('male deer') + eye ('eye') because the shiny brown seed looks like a deer's eye; people often kept a buckeye as a lucky charm even though it is not edible.