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Meanings of European chestnut in English
Portuguese
castanea sativa Wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia.
Synonyms
Examples for "sweet chestnut"
Examples for "sweet chestnut"
1
The American sweet chestnut appears likely soon to be wiped out by blight.
2
They include sycamore, poplar, horse and sweet chestnut, ash and lime.
3
You can just picture yourself here, in Spanish tack riding through sweet chestnut groves.
4
Not so the horse chestnut, willow and sweet chestnut - all difficult to digest.
5
The Japanese, ordinarily, does not make a good union with the American sweet chestnut.
1
They had a house at Haslemere, with Spanish chestnut woods all round it.
2
That great Spanish chestnut must be a perfect block when its leaves are out.
3
The Spanish chestnut is a very fine tree; the walnut, it is true, grows slowly.
4
The most nourishing was a fruit larger than a Spanish chestnut, and with a similar taste.
5
The Spanish chestnut, a larger and coarser tree than our American, reaches an enormous girth and spread.
1
A nationwide survey was carried out to assess mould spoilage of Castanea sativa nuts sold in Canadian grocery stores in 1998-99.
2
A hybrid chestnut presumed to be a cross between European Chestnut ( Castanea Sativa) and its American cousin (Castanea Americana).
Usage of European chestnut in English
1
The European chestnut is quite as fatally subject to blight as is the American.
2
The European chestnut, which is not as good, brought 30c on the Baltimore market last year.
3
The European chestnut is only fair, with the chinquapin somewhat better, but having the disadvantage of being troublesome to get from the seed.
4
A hybrid chestnut presumed to be a cross between European Chestnut (Castanea Sativa) and its American cousin (Castanea Americana).
5
Mr. Hall: On the ground where the blight appeared, there were four chestnuts set by a nurseryman, two Japanese and two European chestnuts.
6
It has been found that this disease attacks the common native chestnut, the chinquapin, the various cultivated European chestnuts, but very rarely the Japanese.
7
(36) One of a group of European chestnuts from seed brought me by Major L. L. Seaman.