" chestnut "

[Noun]  | "chest*nut" | \ ˈches(t)-(ˌ)nət \

1: any of a small genus (Castanea) of deciduous trees or shrubs of the beech family that are found in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere and produce a small round fruit having a prickly outer husk and containing one to seven edible nuts; especially : a North American tree (C. dentata) that was formerly a dominant or codominant member of many deciduous forests of the eastern U.S. but was largely eliminated by chestnut blight in the 20th century and seldom grows beyond the shrub or sapling stage : american chestnut

2: the nut of a chestnut

3: the wood of a chestnut

Origin: 1519 ;

 Middle English chasteine, chesten chestnut tree, from Anglo-French chastein, chestain, from Latin castanea, from Greek kastanea;

[Noun]  | "chestnut blight" 

1: a destructive disease of the American chestnut and American chinquapins marked by cankers of the bark and cambium and caused by a fungus (Cryphonectria parasitica synonym Endothia parasitica) introduced into the U.S. from Asia in the early 1900s; also : the fungus causing chestnut blight

Origin: 1907 ;

[Noun]  | "chestnut oak" 

1: any of several oaks having oblong to lanceolate leaves with crenate or serrate edges: such as

2: chinquapin oak

3: a medium-sized oak (Quercus prinus) of eastern North America with large acorns and leaves that are yellow-green above and paler below

Origin: 1703 ;

[Noun]  | "American chestnut" 

1: a North American chestnut tree (Castanea dentata) that was formerly a dominant or codominant member of many deciduous forests of the eastern U.S. but was largely eliminated by chestnut blight in the 20th century and seldom grows beyond the shrub or sapling stage

Origin: 1881 ;

[Noun]  | "Chinese chestnut" 

1: an Asian chestnut (Castanea mollissima) that is resistant to chestnut blight

Origin: circa 1909 ;

[Noun]  | "horse chestnut" 

1: a large tree (Aesculus hippocastanum of the family Sapindaceae, the soapberry family) of southeastern Europe that has palmate leaves and erect conical clusters of showy flowers and is widely cultivated as an ornamental and shade tree and naturalized as an escape; also : buckeye

2: the large glossy brown seed of a horse chestnut

Origin: 1597 ;

[Noun]  | "Spanish chestnut" 

1: the sweet edible nut of a large Mediterranean chestnut (Castanea sativa) —called also marron

2: a tree that bears Spanish chestnuts

Origin: 1683 ;

[Noun]  | "water chestnut" 

1: any of a genus (Trapa, especially T. natans of the family Lythraceae, the loosestrife family) of Old World aquatic herbs sometimes grown as ornamentals; also : its edible nutlike spiny fruit

2: a whitish crunchy vegetable used especially in Chinese cooking that is the peeled and often sliced tuber of a sedge (Eleocharis dulcis synonym E. tuberosa) native to Asia but widely cultivated elsewhere; also : the tuber or the sedge itself

Origin: 1597 ;

[Adjective]  | "chestnut" 

1: of the color chestnut

2: of, relating to, or resembling a chestnut

Origin: 1555 ;

[Noun]  | "chestnut"