american chestnut

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   large tree found from Maine to Alabama

   SynonymsAmerican sweet chestnutCastanea dentata

   Broaderchestnut

   Part ofCastanea

Questions about american chestnut

What does american chestnut mean?

american chestnut means "large tree found from Maine to Alabama".

What is another word for american chestnut?

Close synonyms include American sweet chestnut, Castanea dentata. 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 american chestnut a common word?

american chestnut 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.