A chestnut tree is a spreading tree with candle-like flowers and spiky fruit. Under the chestnut tree.
The horse chestnut gives conkers, which are not edible, and the sweet chestnut gives the nuts that are. A chestnut tree in flower carries thousands of upright spikes that really do look like candles.
1nounchestnut treeA spreading tree with candle-like flowers and spiky fruit.
“The chestnut tree in the square was two hundred years old.”
chestnut tree is a tree.
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