chestnut tree

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.