horse chestnut
1. tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds (Freq. 1) • Syn: buckeye, Aesculus hippocastanum • Hypernyms: angiospermous tree, flowering tree • Hyponyms: sweet buckeye, Ohio buckeye, dwarf buckeye, bottlebrush buckeye, red buckeye, particolored buckeye • Member Holonyms: Aesculus, genus Aesculus 2. the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut • Syn: buckeye, conker • Hypernyms: seed
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