horse chestnut

1. 1.

   tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds

   SynonymsbuckeyeAesculus hippocastanum

   Broaderangiospermous tree

   Narrowersweet buckeyeOhio buckeyedwarf buckeyered buckeyeparticolored buckeye

   Part ofAesculus
2. 2.

   the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut

   Synonymsbuckeyeconker

   Broaderseed

Questions about horse chestnut

What does horse chestnut mean?

horse chestnut means "tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for horse chestnut?

Close synonyms include buckeye, Aesculus hippocastanum, buckeye, conker. 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 horse chestnut a common word?

horse 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.