chestnut

chestnut
chest•nut
[[t]ˈtʃɛsˌnʌt, -nət[/t]] n.
1) pln any of several tall trees of the genus Castanea, of the beech family, bearing edible nuts enclosed in a prickly bur, as C. sativa, of Europe, and C. dentata, an American tree virtually destroyed by chestnut blight
2) bot pln the edible nut of such a tree
3) the wood of any of these trees
4) pln any fruit or tree resembling the chestnut, as the horse chestnut
5) reddish brown
6) a stale joke, anecdote, etc
7) zool. the callosity on the inner side of a horse's leg
8) dch a horse having a reddish brown or brown body with mane and tail of the same or a lighter color
9) reddish brown
Etymology: 1350–1400; earlier chesten nut, ME chesten, OE cysten chestnut tree (< L castanea < Gk kastanéa) +nut chest′nut`ty, adj.

From formal English to slang. 2014.

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