cooked chestnut
- noun
:
castaña cocida
- She scattered cooked chestnut pieces over the holiday salad for extra flavor.
- peeled cooked chestnuts
- jarred cooked chestnuts
- a cup of cooked chestnuts
Examples
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I love eating cooked chestnuts in the winter.
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The chef added the cooked chestnut to the salad for extra flavor and texture.
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After peeling the shell, the cooked chestnut was soft and sweet.
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The street vendor sold hot cooked chestnut snacks in paper bags.
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They sell cooked chestnuts at the local market.
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After boiling, the cooked chestnut became soft and easy to mash.
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She served the pasta with a creamy sauce and garnished it with cooked chestnuts.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a chestnut that has been boiled, roasted, or otherwise heated' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'cooked' (made ready by heating) with 'chestnut' (the nut). This simple adjective+noun compositional pattern is basic and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand it.
Etymology
Cooked chestnut is a simple food image: a chestnut that has been cooked, so it becomes soft and sweet. So it means a chestnut that has been prepared by heat and is 'ready to eat'.
