chestnut
- noun
- /ˈʧɛstnʌt/
- Effie Whittemore was driving the horses, a pair of glossy chestnuts.
Examples
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Nick reacted quickly; one firm touch, and the big chestnut gelding calmly shifted away from Billie.
Fiction book (2002) -
Right here in this exact spot, I'd come over to wrangle a chestnut horse named Trigger.
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The next day, on her birthday, he had a beautiful chestnut pony delivered to the ranch.
Fiction book (1993) -
At times the war band broke into a gallop, letting their chestnut horses race wherever they found the going good on those well known tracks.
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The horse was an old, worn-out chestnut with an ill-kept coat.
Fiction book (1996) -
The fog had lifted a bit, and I squinted to see two men on chestnut Quarter Horses cantering up the path toward us.
Fiction book (2002) -
Last week I finally bought Mr Henderson's chestnut Arabian stallion.
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After breakfast, I had my chestnut mare saddled and rode over to see Frank's father, Sir Charles Stanton, our local squire.
Fiction book (1998) -
A small Indian man wearing a formal blue suit, vest, and fedora galloped by on a chestnut gelding, crying, "Cole! Cole!"
Fiction book (1998) -
He rode his beautiful chestnut horse across the sunny meadow.
Synonyms
A horse with a reddish-brown coat often having a lighter mane and tail
A horse coat that is a solid dark reddish brown
Compounds
A large tree that makes nuts you can eat in prickly cases and has leaves that turn brown in autumn
- Specialized
A fungus that makes open sores on American chestnut trees and often kills them
A large eastern North American tree that makes edible nuts and strong wood
- Specialized
A disease that attacks chestnut trees, making sores on the bark and often killing the tree
- US
A North American oak tree with leaves like a chestnut and dark, deeply ridged bark
- Specialized
A disease that kills American chestnut trees by making deep wounds in their bark
A small bushy tree from the southeastern United States that makes small edible nuts
A large tree from eastern North America that makes sweet edible nuts and useful wood
- Australian
A tall Australian tree with orange-yellow flowers and large pods that contain edible seeds like chestnuts
A large tree that loses its leaves and produces sweet edible nuts and useful wood
- Australian
An Australian tree with divided leaves, orange flowers, large pods, and dark strong wood
A large tree with hand-shaped leaves and showy flowers that make shiny brown seeds you cannot eat
- Specialized
A group of trees like horse-chestnuts with large flowers and glossy inedible seeds in hard cases
- Indian
A large evergreen tree from India with white sweet-smelling flowers and very hard wood used for building
- Specialized
A medium to large tree with big leaves that grows in wet areas of the southeastern United States
A medium-sized tree from the eastern United States with strong, durable wood
How Reddish
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chestnut for a horse comes from the animal's coat color that looks like a chestnut nut, so a 'chestnut' horse is one with that rich reddish-brown coat.