chestnut

• Some recalled the chestnut: brown-skinned Ents with large splayfingered hands, and short thick legs. —  The Lord of the Rings
• This chestnut is an long time favorite for McCain. —  Club for Growth
• The disease known as the chestnut tree blight is caused by the fungus, Diaporthe parasitica_, which usually finds entrance to the tree through wounds in the bark. —  Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912
• These nuts are of about the size of a horse-chestnut, and contain a considerable quantity of oil: they are the fruit of one of the largest and most magnificent trees of our island. —  The Island Home
• Many Americans wear the seed of the horse-chestnut, and many others wear lucky coins. —  As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home

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