Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A shrub or tree of the genus Castanopsis.

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Examples

  • Until the early part of this century American chestnut (Castanea dentata) was so ecologically and commercially important a species in this ecoregion that these forests were known as oak-chestnut forests.

    Northeastern coastal forests 2009

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