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How to pronounce chestnut in English?

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Synonyms chestnut tree
Type of tree
Has types sweet chestnut, castanea crenata, castanea dentata, castanea mollissima, castanea ozarkensis, castanea pumila, castanea sativa, spanish chestnut, ozark chinkapin, american sweet chestnut, chinese chestnut, chinquapin, dwarf chestnut, eastern chinquapin, european chestnut, japanese chestnut, american chestnut, ozark chinquapin, allegheny chinkapin
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Type of horse, equus caballus
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Type of callus
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Type of edible nut
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a chestnut horse.
chestnut hair.
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Type of brownness, brown
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Type of wood

Examples of chestnut

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The range is available for immediate delivery in chestnut, mocha and dark brown.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The Thinkwells were received by a pompous gentleman with long chestnut whiskers.
From the time.com
Other timbers appear to be made of an older wood such as chestnut, Rodgers said.
From the charlotteobserver.com
A lonely boy and his father's ranch hand work together to raise a chestnut pony.
From the post-gazette.com
The frames are available in five colors including smoke gray and chestnut brown.
From the dispatch.com
The farmers also make gluten-free chestnut flour and dehydrated chestnut slices.
From the sacbee.com
The horse chestnut trees in front of my home are infested with miner moth larva.
From the guardian.co.uk
The chestnut colt, sent off at 14-to-1 odds, was at the back of the field early.
From the timesunion.com
Charming little budget chestnut on a market street just north of the Via Toledo.
From the latimes.com
More examples
  • Wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea
  • (of hair or feathers) of a golden brown to reddish brown color; "a chestnut horse"; "chestnut hair"
  • Any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur
  • The brown color of chestnuts
  • A small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg
  • * treated as a synonym of Castanea pumila by many authors
  • Chestnut is a hair coat color of horses consisting of a reddish-to-brown coat with a mane and tail the same or lighter in color than the coat. Genetically and visually, chestnut is characterized by the absolute absence of true black hairs. ...
  • Chestnut, also known as Indian red, is a color, a medium brownish shade of red, and is named after the nut of the chestnut tree. As Indian red, it is named after the red laterite soil found in India. It is thus an earth tone as well as a red. It is composed of naturally occurring iron oxides. ...
  • The chestnut, also known as a night eye, is a callousity on the body of a horse or other equine, found on the inner side of the leg above the knee on the foreleg and, if present, below the hock on the hind leg.