Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - chestnut
Chestnut
chestnut
n. & adj. --n. 1 a a glossy hard brown edible nut. b the tree Castanea sativa, bearing flowers in catkins and nuts enclosed in a spiny fruit. Also called Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut. 2 any other tree of the genus Castanea. 3 = horse chestnut. 4 (in full chestnut-wood) the heavy wood of any chestnut tree. 5 a horse of a reddish-brown or yellowish-brown colour. 6 colloq. a stale joke or anecdote. 7 a small hard patch on a horse's leg. 8 a reddish-brown colour. --adj. of the colour chestnut. Phrases and idioms liver chestnut a dark kind of chestnut horse. Etymology: obs. chesten f. OF chastaine f. L castanea f. Gk kastanea
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English chasteine, chesten ~ tree, from Anglo-French chastein, chestain, from Latin castanea, from Greek kastanea Date: 14th century 1. any of a genus (Castanea) of trees or shrubs of the beech family, the edible nut of a ~, the wood of a ~, a grayish to reddish brown, horse ~, a ~-colored animal, a callosity on the inner side of the leg of the horse, 6. an old joke or story, something (as a musical piece or a saying) repeated to the point of staleness, II. adjective Date: 1555 of the color ~, of, relating to, or resembling a ~ ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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