chestnut tree
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- noun
- /ˈʧɛstnʌt tri/
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castaño
- The Asian chestnut trees could tolerate that fungus, but the American could not.
- horse chestnut tree
- American chestnut tree
- chestnut tree in full bloom
Examples
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I talk about it with my father, who has grown old but still speaks softly, as we sit on a bench under the old chestnut tree in the middle of his stubbornly preserved reserve.
Fiction book (1997) -
By 1940, blight had brought down nearly every mature chestnut tree in the country.
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In Figure 1, a student measures a bud on a horse chestnut tree.
Academic text (2010) -
The sun and the shadows from the chestnut tree move closer.
Fiction book (1995) -
And if you look at New England, we used to have dominant chestnut trees, they're gone.
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Somewhere in Zizkov, there is a square courtyard, and in the center stands a stately chestnut tree.
Fiction book (1999) -
Then the weather changed: the sun blazed fiercely in a white sky, and the leaves of the chestnut tree on the edge of the fields hung down heavily like ripe fruit.
Fiction book (1994) -
The last thing they did that afternoon as the sun was sinking was to walk in the Tuileries Gardens, where the children still played in brightly colored warm clothes under the chestnut trees, and gossiping nannies wrapped in cloaks were starting to wheel home the prams.
Fiction book (1993) -
A man was sitting on a bench under a magnificent chestnut tree.
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Somewhere in Zizkov, there is a square courtyard, and in the center stands a stately chestnut tree.
Synonyms
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A large tree that loses its leaves in autumn and makes brown nuts you can eat
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a tree that produces chestnuts' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'chestnut' (the nut/tree) with 'tree' (a tall perennial plant). This straightforward noun‑noun compound follows common cross‑linguistic naming patterns for plants and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Chestnut tree is named after the nut it makes, the chestnut. People long ago ate the nuts, so they called the tree by the nut's name, and today chestnut tree means 'a tree that produces chestnuts'.