Advertisement

Advertisement

sweet chestnut

noun

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Discover More

Example Sentences

Another cousin of the Starfish is the Sea-urchin, a round prickly creature rather like the burr of the sweet-chestnut tree.

For instance, there is some antagonism between the American sweet chestnut and Asiatic chestnuts.

Meantime it seemed good to go to the woods for nuts, and on the mossy grass under a sweet chestnut tree the five were sitting.

The grown-up Lamb moved gracefully across the moss and settled himself against the trunk of the sweet chestnut.

Tufted spleenwort, primroses, and broom tangle the hedges under boughs of hornbeam and sweet-chestnut.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


sweet cherrysweet cicely