单词 | chestnut tree |
释义 | chestnut tree (once / 8510 pages) n WORD FAMILY chestnut tree: chestnut trees USAGE EXAMPLESOnly the two chestnut trees outside our house, sickly for years, would be forbidden to add their rust-afflicted foliage. The Guardian(Nov 19, 2016) We walk down the wide, gravelled drive past majestic chestnut trees to see a typical bedroom in the new unit - the chateau's former laundry house. BBC(Sep 24, 2016) When his grandfather grew up near Philadelphia, he said, gigantic chestnut trees towered over eastern forests. The Guardian(Sep 19, 2016) n any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur Syn|Hypo|Hyper chestnut American chestnut, American sweet chestnut, Castanea dentata large tree found from Maine to Alabama Castanea sativa, European chestnut, Spanish chestnut, sweet chestnutwild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia Castanea mollissima, Chinese chestnuta small tree with small sweet nuts; wild or naturalized in Korea and China Castanea crenata, Japanese chestnuta spreading tree of Japan that has a short trunk Allegheny chinkapin, Castanea pumila, chinquapin, dwarf chestnut, eastern chinquapinshrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts Castanea ozarkensis, Ozark chinkapin, Ozark chinquapin, chinquapinshrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States tree a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms |
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