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chestnut

chestnut

3 5.0
A horse with a reddish-brown coat
  • noun
  • /ˈʧɛstnʌt/
translation icon : alazán
  • Effie Whittemore was driving the horses, a pair of glossy chestnuts.

Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

sorrel
vschestnut
  • Jargon
2 8.6

A horse with a reddish-brown coat often having a lighter mane and tail

is a darker golden or reddish brown rather than a light tone
liver chestnut
vschestnut
  • Specialized
8.1

A horse coat that is a solid dark reddish brown

is dark golden or reddish brown but not as deep as that shade

Compounds

old chestnut
  • Informal
4 7.9

A story or joke people tell so often that it becomes boring

A large tree that makes nuts you can eat in prickly cases and has leaves that turn brown in autumn

A plant that grows in water with a crunchy edible part used in Asian cooking

A brown color with a little red that often appears in hair or feathers

A warm reddish brown like the coat of some horses

chestnut blight
  • Specialized
1 7.6

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

chestnut canker
  • Specialized
9.1

A disease that attacks chestnut trees, making sores on the bark and often killing the tree

7.4

A North American oak tree with leaves like a chestnut and dark, deeply ridged bark

chestnut-bark disease
  • Specialized
7.4

A disease that kills American chestnut trees by making deep wounds in their bark

A tree from China and Korea that makes small sweet nuts you can eat

A water plant with small crunchy bulbs eaten in Chinese cooking

A chestnut heated until soft and ready to eat

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 chestnut
  • Australian
9.3

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

liver chestnut
  • Specialized
8.1

A horse coat that is a solid dark reddish brown

9.9

An Australian tree with divided leaves, orange flowers, large pods, and dark strong wood

A cream made from horse chestnut that eases muscle and joint pain

A cream made from horse chestnut that reduces muscle and joint pain

A large tree with hand-shaped leaves and showy flowers that make shiny brown seeds you cannot eat

A glossy brown seed in a spiky green husk that you cannot eat

horse-chestnut family
  • Specialized
8.7

A group of trees like horse-chestnuts with large flowers and glossy inedible seeds in hard cases

A tree from Japan that loses its leaves and produces edible nuts

oak chestnut
  • Indian
8.6

A tree from Asia with strong wood and edible nuts

rose chestnut
  • Indian
9.9

A large evergreen tree from India with white sweet-smelling flowers and very hard wood used for building

A large tree that loses its leaves and makes nuts you can eat and good wood

A warm reddish brown colour like a nut

swamp chestnut oak
  • Specialized
6.6

A medium to large tree with big leaves that grows in wet areas of the southeastern United States

A large tree that has sweet edible nuts and gives shade

water chestnut plant
  • Specialized
5.6

A water plant with spiky four-part nuts that people eat

A medium-sized tree from the eastern United States with strong, durable wood

How Reddish

chestnut
3 5.0
bay
6.9
liver chestnut
  • Specialized
8.1

Surface Forms

chestnut singular
chestnuts plural

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.