chestnut
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
chestnut/ˈtʃesnʌt/
▶noun
- 1 a glossy hard brown nut which develops within a bristly case and can be roasted and eaten.
- 2 (also chestnut tree, sweet chestnut, or Spanish chestnut) the large tree that produces chestnuts. [Castanea sativa.]
■ used in names of similar nuts, and trees and plants that produce them, e.g. horse chestnut, water chestnut.
- 3 a deep reddish-brown colour.
- 4 a horse of a reddish-brown or yellowish-brown colour.
- 5 a small horny patch on the inside of a horse's leg.
– phrases
an old chestnut a joke, story, or subject that has become uninteresting through constant repetition.
an old chestnut a joke, story, or subject that has become uninteresting through constant repetition.
'chestnut' also found in these Oxford entries:
bongo
- buckeye
- caltrop
- castanets
- ch.
- chinquapin
- conker
- curry
- horse chestnut
- liver chestnut
- maroon
- marron glacé
- mast
- mouflon
- okapi
- red roan
- roan
- stoat
- strawberry roan
- sunbittern
- thorn apple
- water chestnut
- woodchat shrike
