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American Chestnut
see synonyms of american chestnutNoun
1. american chestnut, american sweet chestnut, castanea dentata
large tree found from Maine to Alabama
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
American Chestnut
see synonyms of american chestnutn.
An eastern North American deciduous tree (Castanea dentata) having narrow toothed leaves. It was once valued for its timber and nuts but is now found mostly as sprouts from old stumps, the aboveground parts having died from chestnut blight.
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