NOUN
- any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur
How To Use chestnut tree In A Sentence
- The most commanding presence is the horse chestnut tree, often a massive green tower covered with bright white lanterns. Times, Sunday Times
- And thus she brought to his own mind those moments of youth, the linden trees, the chestnut trees. DARE CALL IT TREASON
- I just noticed the chestnut tree in our front yard was dying and wondered why.
- Mount Olympus, home of the gods of the ancient Greeks, was said to have had an abundance of chestnut trees producing this sweet, edible nut.
- More than a thousand conkers had been harvested from the arboretum's 102 horse chestnut trees for use in a variety of games.
- Farther along, there was some loud drumming coming from a sweet chestnut tree. Times, Sunday Times
- He left the path along the water and stole under the trees, along the deep shadow of little plantations, where the boughs of chestnut trees hung their great leaves low, and there was blacker refuge, shaping his course in circles which had for their object a stealthy inspection of chairs side by side, against tree-trunks, of enlaced lovers, who stirred at his approach. The Man of Property
- Many horse chestnut trees are withered from top to toe, but this is not due to seasonal change. Times, Sunday Times
- It sat, silver-grey and guilty, beneath the fresh new leaves of a horse-chestnut tree. AN OLDER WOMAN
- One damaged chestnut tree and five mature conifers had to be removed.
