sweet chestnut

1. A chestnut tree (Castanea sativa) of the Mediterranean region, bearing edible nuts enclosed in a spiny bur.

2. The nut of this tree. In both senses also called marron, Spanish chestnut.

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sweet chestnut

(Plants) See chestnut¹

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Noun

sweet chestnut - wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia

Castanea sativa, European chestnut, Spanish chestnut

chestnut tree, chestnut - any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur

Translations

barzelletta vecchia castagno castano sauro

sweet chestnut

n (Bot) → castagno

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Roasted chestnuts are a winter favourite and the sweet chestnut Marron De Lyon produces kernels that can be cooked in sugar syrup.

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Sweet chestnut blight is a fungus which infects and kills chestnut trees which was accidentally introduced from Asia.

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In the 16th century, farmers and landowners were told to plant four trees each year - a sweet chestnut, a fig, a mulberry and an olive tree, and all of these still grow on Corsica today.

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Constructed from wood - with plenty of wood used inside the property, including a bespoke sweet chestnut staircase and several feature beams - the house was completed in about nine months in 2009 and is on the market for the first time since then.

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The front of the house has a block paved driveway, which leads to the integral wood car port and the oak/ sweet chestnut remote-operated gate to the triple garage, work area and drive of the upper rear garden.

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This small, quiet patch of ancient semi-natural woodland at the National Trust site inEast Clandon, was first recorded in the Chertsey Chronicles during the 13th century and features sweet chestnut, ash, oak, birch and hornbeam.

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