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chestnuts; chinkapins

↑chestnut, ↑chestnut tree, ↑American chestnut, ↑American sweet chestnut, ↑Castanea dentata, ↑Chinese chestnut, ↑Castanea mollissima, ↑Japanese chestnut, ↑Castanea crenata, ↑Allegheny chinkapin, ↑eastern chinquapin, ↑chinquapin, ↑dwarf chestnut, ↑Castanea pumila, ↑Ozark chinkapin, ↑Ozark chinquapin, ↑Castanea ozarkensis

: a small genus of rough-barked trees or shrubs (family Fagaceae) native to temperate regions and characterized by having four bud scales on each bud, unlobed leaves, and staminate flowers in stiff cylindrical catkins, the fruit ripening in one season and being a single nut or group of two or three nuts within a 2- to 4-valved scaly prickly involucre — see chestnut; compare quercus

Castanea /ka-stānˈi-ə/

The chestnut genus, of the beech family (Fagaceae)

castanospermine /kas-tan-ō-spûrˈmēn/ noun

(Gr sperma a seed) an alkaloid obtained from the seeds of the Moreton Bay chestnut

Castanospermum /-məm/ noun

An Australian papilionaceous tree, the Moreton Bay chestnut, so called from the taste of its nuts