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sweet chestnut

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sweet chestnut
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) See chestnut [1]
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Noun1.sweet chestnut - wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asiasweet chestnut - wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia
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
sweet chestnut n (Bot) → castagno


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This week's recipe combines sprouts with sweet chestnuts, another produce that rears its lovely head at this time of year.
Byline: FIONA PARKER ONE of my favourite childhood memories in the 1930s was going with my mother, my best friend and her mum into the woods near our house to pick up the sweet chestnuts which fell in autumn.
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