Castanea

Cas`ta´ne`a

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(Bot.) A genus of nut-bearing trees or shrubs including the chestnut and chinquapin.

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Castanea - chestnuts; chinkapins                 genus Castanea hamamelid dicot genus - genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins beech family, Fagaceae, family Fagaceae - chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus chestnut tree, chestnut - any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur American chestnut, American sweet chestnut, Castanea dentata - large tree found from Maine to Alabama Castanea mollissima, Chinese chestnut - a small tree with small sweet nuts; wild or naturalized in Korea and China Castanea crenata, Japanese chestnut - a spreading tree of Japan that has a short trunk Allegheny chinkapin, Castanea pumila, dwarf chestnut, eastern chinquapin, chinquapin - shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts Castanea ozarkensis, chinquapin, Ozark chinkapin, Ozark chinquapin - shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States