NOUN
- tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds
- the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut
How To Use horse chestnut In A Sentence
- There too, one May, I had identified a garden warbler singing hidden within a huge candled horse chestnut that spread its great branches across the road as if it were holding its own skirt. A Year on the Wing
- The most commanding presence is the horse chestnut tree, often a massive green tower covered with bright white lanterns. Times, Sunday Times
- There I saw the first olive tree ever planted in Australia; the Cork-tree in luxuriance; the Caper growing among rocks, the English Oak, the horse chestnut, broom, magnificent mulberry trees of thirty-five years growth, umbrageous and green, great variety of roses in hedges, also climbing roses.
- She has picked hazel, horse chestnut and oak. Times, Sunday Times
- More than a thousand conkers had been harvested from the arboretum's 102 horse chestnut trees for use in a variety of games.
- Many horse chestnut trees are withered from top to toe, but this is not due to seasonal change. Times, Sunday Times
- It has not been a good decade for horse chestnuts. Times, Sunday Times
- The familiar figure of Selwyn Hopkins sat on the bench under the horse chestnut tree, gazing out over the estuary.
- This controversy comes a month after council chiefs in South Shields sparked outrage by chopping branches off a horse chestnut tree.
- In some areas, horse chestnut trees have been cut down because of the possibility that children might be hurt playing conkers.
