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# chestnut

«chestnut» in Mova's school dictionary: **a shiny reddish-brown nut that grows inside a prickly…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a chestnut, chestnuts); adjective (chestnut hair, a chestnut horse)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A chestnut is a shiny reddish-brown nut that grows inside a prickly case on a chestnut tree; sweet chestnuts can be roasted and eaten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chestnut/#m1)

2) A chestnut is also the tree itself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chestnut/#m2)

3) Chestnut is a reddish-brown colour, often of hair or a horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chestnut/#m3)

4) «An old chestnut» is a joke or story that has been told too many times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chestnut/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In nature lessons and autumn walks children collect chestnuts. Horse chestnuts (conkers in the UK and Ireland) are not for eating; sweet chestnuts are roasted at markets in winter. Phrases: roasted chestnuts, horse chestnut, chestnut tree, chestnut hair, an old chestnut.

### examples

- We collected shiny chestnuts in the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chestnut/#x1)
- The chestnut case was covered in sharp spikes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chestnut/#x2)
- Roasted chestnuts smell wonderful in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chestnut/#x3)
- She has long chestnut hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chestnut/#x4)
- The farmer rode a chestnut horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chestnut/#x5)
- A huge chestnut tree shades the playground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chestnut/#x6)
- Don't eat horse chestnuts; they can make you sick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chestnut/#x7)
- Grandpa told that old chestnut about the talking dog again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chestnut/#x8)
- It is like entering a grove of chestnut and walnut-trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chestnut/#x9)

### note

Countable: a chestnut, chestnuts. The «t» in the middle is usually silent: CHES-nut. Trap: horse chestnuts (conkers) look like sweet chestnuts but are poisonous to eat. As a colour word it comes before a noun (chestnut hair).

### In the corpora

- [A cut horse chestnut twig kept in water indoors opens its buds early.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds/5/)
- [Maddie climbed the tallest horse chestnut in the park and refused to come down for tea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/378-maddie-the-tomboy/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chestnut» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chestnut/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.