castanea mollissima

1. 1.

   a small tree with small sweet nuts; wild or naturalized in Korea and China

   SynonymsChinese chestnut

   Broaderchestnut

   Part ofCastanea

Questions about castanea mollissima

What does castanea mollissima mean?

castanea mollissima means "a small tree with small sweet nuts; wild or naturalized in Korea and China".

What is another word for castanea mollissima?

Close synonyms include Chinese chestnut. 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 castanea mollissima a common word?

castanea mollissima 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.