Castanea

Castanea
noun
chestnuts; chinkapins
• Syn: ↑genus Castanea
• Hypernyms: ↑hamamelid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Fagaceae, ↑family Fagaceae, ↑beech family
• Member Meronyms:

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\\kaˈstānēə\ noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, chestnut — more at chestnut
: a small genus of rough-barked trees or shrubs (family Fagaceae) native to temperate regions and characterized by having four bud scales on each bud, unlobed leaves, and staminate flowers in stiff cylindrical catkins, the fruit ripening in one season and being a single nut or group of two or three nuts within a 2- to 4-valved scaly prickly involucre — see chestnut; compare quercus

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Castanea /ka-stānˈi-ə/
noun
The chestnut genus, of the beech family (Fagaceae)
ORIGIN: Gr kastanon chestnut
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castanospermine /kas-tan-ō-spûrˈmēn/ noun
(Gr sperma a seed) an alkaloid obtained from the seeds of the Moreton Bay chestnut
Castanospermum /-məm/ noun
An Australian papilionaceous tree, the Moreton Bay chestnut, so called from the taste of its nuts

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