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Cupuliferous :: Cupuliferous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule..

Horse-chestnut :: Horse-chestnut (n.) The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes..

Cupule :: Cupule (n.) A cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc..

Chestnut :: Chestnut (n.) The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.

Horse-chestnut :: Horse-chestnut (n.) The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name..

Marron :: Marron (a.) A large chestnut.

Chestnut :: Chestnut (n.) An old joke or story.

Marron :: Marron (a.) A chestnut color; maroon.

Buckeye :: Buckeye (n.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut.

Fraxin :: Fraxin (n.) A colorless crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and found in the bark of the ash (Fraxinus) and along with esculin in the bark of the horse-chestnut. It shows a delicate fluorescence in alkaline solutions; -- called also paviin..

Paviin :: Paviin (n.) A glucoside found in species of the genus Pavia of the Horse-chestnut family.

Amentaceous :: Amentaceous (a.) Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence..

Saligot :: Saligot (n.) The water chestnut (Trapa natans).

Roan :: Roan (a.) Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse..

Pseudo-monocotyledonous :: Pseudo-monocotyledonous (a.) Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut..

Groundnut :: Groundnut (n.) A European plant of the genus Bunium (B. flexuosum), having an edible root of a globular shape and sweet, aromatic taste; -- called also earthnut, earth chestnut, hawknut, and pignut..

Linnet :: Linnet (n.) Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (L. cannabina), which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria)

Chestnut :: Chestnut (a.) Of the color of a chestnut; of a reddish brown color; as, chestnut curls..

Mastful :: Mastful (a.) Abounding in mast; producing mast in abundance; as, the mastful forest; a mastful chestnut..

Water Chestnut :: Water chestnut () The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop..

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