horse chestnut
- noun
- /hɔrs ˈʧɛstnʌt/
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marrón de castaño de Indias
- Then Orr found two horse chestnuts somewhere and slipped those in until Yossarian detected them and snapped at him again to take the crap apples out of his mouth.
Examples
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(to Toby) I picked up two barrels of horse chestnuts in the park.
Fiction book (1993) -
A good option for healing a severe hemorrhoid is to apply the herb horse chestnut.
Blog text (19) -
The floor around him is two feet deep in horse chestnuts.
Fiction book (1993) -
Toby is on the utility porch husking the 55 horse chestnuts.
Fiction book (1993) -
Orr grinned and replied they were not crab apples but horse chestnuts and that they were not in his mouth but in his hands.
Academic text (2003) -
In autumn, children love to gather horse chestnuts from the ground beneath the trees.
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The shiny horse chestnuts fell from the tree and rolled across the path.
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My friend found a bag of horse chestnuts while cleaning out the garage.
Synonyms
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9.9
A hard, shiny brown seed from the horse chestnut tree that you cannot eat
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9.9
A shiny brown nutlike seed from the horse chestnut tree that is not for eating
Surface Forms
Morphology
horse + chestnut
This is a straightforward compositional compound where 'horse' modifies 'chestnut' to name a particular kind of chestnut/tree. A B1 learner who knows both words will understand it denotes a type of chestnut (a specific tree/seed); they may not infer details like inedibility, but the basic referent is directly derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Horse chestnut is the shiny brown seed that looks like an edible chestnut but is actually inedible. One popular story says people used these seeds with horses, so the name 'horse' helps you remember the seed is the animal kind, not food.