| Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| Adjective | 1. Being maroon or brown.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun | 1. The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name.[Websters] 2. The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes.[Websters]. | |
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Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. |
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"Horse-chestnut" is a common misspelling or typo for: horse-chestnuts. |
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Date "Horse-chestnut" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
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| Noah Webster | [Noun] A large nut,the fruit of a species of Aesculus; or the tree that produces it. The tree is much cultivated for shade.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Aerospace | Horse-chestnut is and introduced tree that is found in the southern parts of Ontario and Quebec. It has poisoned cattle, horses, and pigs, causing sickness and death (Reynard and Norton 1942, Muenscher 1975). Human poisoning has also occurred. Horse-chestnut fruits, leaves, and flowers contain the chemical aesculin. Young leaves and flowers are especially toxic to cattle (Reynard and Norton 1942). Children occasionally ingest the fruit but few authenticated cases of poisoning are found in the literature, although death has been reported (Lampe and McCann 1985). Aesculin is a saponin (7-hydroxycoumarin 6-glucoside) that yields aesculetin (6,7-dihydroxycoumarin) upon hydrolysis. Aesculin is related to hydrocoumarin found in spoiled sweet-clover hay (Cooper and Johnson 1984). LD-50 measurements from nut extracts were as follows (Williams and Olsen 1984): 1- 10.6 mg/g of body weight for chicks; and 2- 10.7 mg/g of body weight for hamsters. General symptoms of poisoning: 1- Humans and Cattle: a- death; b- depression; c- diarrhea; d- gastroenteritis; e- muscle twitching; f- paralysis; g- pupil dilation; h- restlessness; i- unconsciousness; j- vomiting; and k- weakness. (references) | ||
| Literature | Horse-chestnut If a slip is cut off obliquely close to a joint, it will present a perfect miniature of a horse's hock and foot, shoe and nails. I have cut off numerous specimens. Probably this has given the name horse to the tree. (See Horse-Vetch.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A species of trees of the genus Aesculus as it is known in Eurasia, common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres and called buckeyes in America. (references) | ||
| 2: [Noun] The large nutlike seed of these trees, formerly fed to horses, whence its name. (references) | |||
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| Common Horse-chestnut | The Common Horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) is a large deciduous tree, native to a small area in the mountains of the Balkans in southeast Europe, but widely cultivated throughout the temperate world. It grows to 35 m tall, with a domed crown of stout branches, on old trees the outer branches often pendulous with curled-up tips. The leaves are opposite and palmately compound, with 5-7 leaflets; each leaflet is 10-25 cm long, making the whole leaf up to 50 cm across, with a 20 cm petiole. The flowers are white with a small red spot; they are produced in spring in erect panicles 10-20 cm tall with about 20-50 flowers on each panicle. Usually only 1-5 fruit develop on each panicle; the fruit is a green, softly spiky capsule containing one (rarely two or three) nut-like seeds called horse chestnuts and also known as conkers. Each conker is 2-4 cm diameter, glossy nut-brown with a whitish scar at the base. (references) | ||
| Horse-chestnut family | Trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Horse-chestnut leaf miner | The horse chestnut leaf miner Cameraria ohridella is a moth of the lepidopteran family Gracillariidae. It probably originated in Asia, and first appeared in Europe in 1985. The moth grows up to 5mm long and has shiny, bright brown forewings with thin black and white stripes. Its larvae feed on the leaves of the Common Horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), causing significant damage to the trees. (references) | ||
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Extended Definition: HORSE-CHESTNUTHorse-chestnutHorse-chestnut may refer to:
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