chestnut

noun · adjectiveB1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

chestnutschesnut

1.
(countable)An edible nut (technically a fruit) of the Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut tree (Castanea sativa); also (chiefly preceded by a descriptive word), a nut from a related shrub or tree; or a similar nut from an unrelated plant.
Đồng nghĩa: Spanish chestnut, sweet chestnut
2.
(countable)In full chestnut tree: the shrub or tree that bears this nut, the Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa); also (chiefly preceded by a descriptive word), a shrub or tree of the genus Castanea.
Đồng nghĩa: Spanish chestnut, sweet chestnut
3.
(by extension) Things resembling a chestnut fruit in appearance or colour.
4.
(countable, figuratively)(countable, figurative) Chiefly in old chestnut: a joke, meme, phrase, ploy, etc. which has been repeated so often as to have grown ineffective or tiresome; a cliché.
Đồng nghĩa: platitude

Tính từ

adjective

1.
(not comparable)Of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut fruit (noun sense 1).
chestnut hair
Đồng nghĩa: castaneous

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Đồng nghĩa

Spanish chestnutsweet chestnutplatitudecastaneouschestnut treenight eye

Cùng gốc / liên quan

sea chestnutcastanet

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Nguồn gốc từ

nut The noun is a chesten nut. Chesten is a late variant of chesteine obsolete, from Middle English chesten, chesteine, chasteine, chesteyne, from Old French chastaigne,chastaine (châtaigne), from Latin castanea (chestnut tree; fruit of this tree) (whence ċisten), from Ancient Greek κᾰστᾰ́νειᾰ, a variant of κᾰ́στᾰνᾰ (sweet chestnut); for further etymology, see that entry. castanet.