CastaneaWordNet Explorer

chestnuts; chinkapins

genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins

chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus

any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur

large tree found from Maine to Alabama

a small tree with small sweet nuts; wild or naturalized in Korea and China

a spreading tree of Japan that has a short trunk

shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts