HORSE CHESTNUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horse chestnut mean? 

• HORSE CHESTNUT (noun)
  The noun HORSE CHESTNUT has 2 senses:

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

2. the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut

  Familiarity information: HORSE CHESTNUT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORSE CHESTNUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Aesculus hippocastanum; buckeye; horse chestnut

Hypernyms ("horse chestnut" is a kind of...):

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horse chestnut"):

sweet buckeye (a tall and often cultivated buckeye of the central United States)

Ohio buckeye (a buckeye with scaly grey bark that is found in the central United States)

bottlebrush buckeye; dwarf buckeye (a spreading shrub with pink flowers; found in southeastern United States)

red buckeye (a shrub buckeye of southern United States)

particolored buckeye (a buckeye marked by different colors or tints)

Holonyms ("horse chestnut" is a member of...):

Aesculus; genus Aesculus (deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

buckeye; conker; horse chestnut

Hypernyms ("horse chestnut" is a kind of...):

seed (a small hard fruit)

 Context examples 

Horse chestnut oil is used topically as a treatment for rheumatism and phlebitis.

(Aesculus hippocastanum Seed Fluid Extract, NCI Thesaurus)