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Noun: horse chestnut
  1. Tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds
    - buckeye, Aesculus hippocastanum
     
  2. The inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut
    - buckeye, conker

Derived forms: horse chestnuts

Type of: angiospermous tree, flowering tree, seed

Part of: Aesculus, genus Aesculus

Encyclopedia: Horse chestnut