American chestnut

American chestnut

n.

An eastern North American deciduous tree (Castanea dentata), once valuable for its timber and nuts but now found mostly as sprouts from old stumps, the aboveground parts having died from chestnut blight.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

American chestnut - large tree found from Maine to Alabama American sweet chestnut, Castanea dentata Castanea, genus Castanea - chestnuts; chinkapins chestnut tree, chestnut - any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur