aesculus hippocastanum

Questions about aesculus hippocastanum

What does aesculus hippocastanum mean?

aesculus hippocastanum means "tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds".

What is another word for aesculus hippocastanum?

Close synonyms include horse chestnut, buckeye. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aesculus hippocastanum a common word?

aesculus hippocastanum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.