chestnut tree

1. 1.

   any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur

   Synonymschestnut

   Broadertree

   NarrowerAmerican chestnutEuropean chestnutChinese chestnutJapanese chestnutAllegheny chinkapinOzark chinkapin

   Part ofCastanea

   Partschestnut

Questions about chestnut tree

What does chestnut tree mean?

chestnut tree means "any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur".

What is another word for chestnut tree?

Close synonyms include 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 chestnut tree a common word?

chestnut tree 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.