单词 | red horse chestnut |
释义 | > as lemmasred horse chestnut red horse chestnut n. (a) a cultivated tree, Aesculus × carnea, a fertile hybrid between the horse chestnut, A. hippocastanum, and the red buckeye, A. pavia; (b) (probably) the red buckeye, A. pavia (rare). ΚΠ 1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 245 The red horse-chesnut. 1882 Garden 9 Sept. 228/2 The Red Horse Chesnut..is one of the most handsome flowering trees that enliven our parks and gardens in spring. 1904 N.E.D. at Red a. 17d Red horse-chestnut,..the red-flowered buckeye, Æsculus pavia. 2003 A. Paterson Trees for your Garden 92/1 The red horse chestnut (A. x carnea), has the small American A. pavia for its other parent. Magnificent in flower, it is not quite the size of the common conker. < as lemmas |
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