Horse-chestnut synonyms

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buckeye
Any of several North American trees or shrubs of the genus Aesculus, having palmately compound leaves, erect panicles of white, yellow, or red flowers, and a leathery capsule containing one or more large seeds. All parts of the plant are poisonous.
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Aesculus hippocastanum
tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds
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conker
A horse chestnut
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Horse-chestnut Sentence Examples

  • In Saxifraga umbrosa (London-pride) and in the horse-chestnut we meet with a raceme of scorpioid cymes; in sea-pink, a capitulum of contracted scorpioid cymes (often called a glomerulus); in laurustinus, a compound umbel of dichasial cymes; a scorpioid cyme of capitula in Vernonia scorpioides.

  • Thus in the horse-chestnut there is an interposition of two stamens, and thus seven stamens are formed in the flower, which is asymmetrical.

  • In the last-mentioned case they are called declinate, as in amaryllis, horse-chestnut and fraxinella.

  • A shaft of brilliant sunlight fell through the dusty layers of a horse chestnut tree, landing on the velvet vows of her shoes.

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