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词汇 chestnut
释义 chestnut
noun
uk /ˈtʃes.nʌt/ us /ˈtʃes.nʌt/
[ C ]USpluralalso chestnut(UKsweet chestnut)
a large tree with leaves divided into five parts and large, round nuts: 栗树
a 200-year-old chestnut tree有200年树龄的栗树
forests full of oak and chestnut长满橡树和栗子树的森林
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horse chestnut
 
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a large, brown nut that grows on a sweet chestnut tree, often cooked and eaten hot: 栗子,板栗
A man in the street was selling bags of roast chestnuts.街上有个人在卖成袋的炒栗子。
 
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[ C ]
a reddish-brown horse栗色马;红棕马
 
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[ U ]
a reddish-brown colour栗色,红褐色,红棕色
 
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Deciduous trees
acacia
acer
ailanthus
alder
almond
fringe tree
ginkgo
hawthorn
honey locust
hornbeam
pussy willow
quaking aspen
red maple
red oak
rowan
vine maple
wayfaring tree
weeping willow
white ash
white birch

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Less common colours

Idiom


old chestnut
chestnut
adjective
uk /ˈtʃes.nʌt/ us /ˈtʃes.nʌt/
reddish-brown in colour栗色的,红褐色的,红棕色的
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Hair colour
ash blonde
ashy
auburn
balayage
blond
blonde
blondie
bronde
brunette
carroty
colouring
flaxen
golden
gray
grey
peroxide blonde
platinum blonde
raven
red-headed
Titian

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Less common colours

chestnut | American Dictionary


chestnut
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈtʃesˌnʌt, -nət/
a large, shiny, red-brown nut, or the tree on which the nuts grow
Chestnut is also a deep red-brown color.

Examples of chestnut


chestnut
These are accompanied by sections on the proofs, religious epistemology, and that proverbial old chestnut, the problem of evil.
Fourthly, an old chestnut that still gets raised in the collection reviewed here: did the guilds rise or fall in influence over the period?
The meadowland and the chestnuts directly served the needs of the animals but crop growing and animal husbandry were also interconnected.
This may have put the booming market for history off and driven it back to the old chestnuts.
This could be easily absorbed by rows of dark chestnut trees planted alongside the harbour inlet.
To gain recognition and reward for his chestnut-leaf paper, he needed a brevet d'invention.
Made of wood, this had a long stick handle connected to a rectangular shaped block of chestnut tree wood.
But in the middle of the twentieth century, the advent of the exclusionary blood test threatened to turn this legal chestnut on its head.
Not perhaps so imposing certainly, not as massive as the chestnut trees.
An old chestnut of moral and legal philosophy raises the problem.
Other species of timber such as sweet chestnut may be an appropriate alternative to green oak.
Appalachian farmers and homesteaders typically ear notched their 150-200 hogs to harvest chestnuts and acorns from the 'open range' woods26.
Amphipods were fed alder and horse chestnut leaves.
Chestnut-fed hogs produced the 'sweetest meat' but rendered into a dark oil instead of a white lard.
He also claimed to be an inventor and a wise manipulator of a neglected resource, chestnut leaves.
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