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Spanish chestnut

noun

Wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia. Synonyms: Castanea sativa, European chestnut, sweet chestnut.

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"Spanish chestnut" Quotes from Famous Books

... some flowering water-plant, went on round a corner, Carmen's dress brushing fallen camellia petals or pink shells of broken roses, and so came to another veranda. This was pergola as well. It had no roof but beams of old Spanish chestnut, so draped with wistaria and roses that the whole out-of-doors room was canopied with leaves and hanging clusters of flowers. Only a faint filtering of sun or moonshine could steal through, and such ...

— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

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Words linked to "Spanish chestnut" : chestnut, chestnut tree