Search Result for "aesculus_hippocastanum":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds;
[syn: horse chestnut, buckeye, Aesculus hippocastanum]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Horse-chestnut \Horse`-chest"nut\, Horsechestnut \Horse`chest"nut\, n. 1. (Bot.) The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Aesculus Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name. The seed is not considered edible by humans. [WordNet sense 2] [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] 2. (Bot.) The tree itself (Aesculus hippocastanum), which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres; it has palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds. The native American species is also called buckeye and conker. [WordNet sense 1] [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Esculin \Es*cu"lin\, n. [See Esculic.] (Chem.) A glucoside obtained from the [AE]sculus hippocastanum, or horse-chestnut, and characterized by its fine blue fluorescent solutions. [Written also [ae]sculin.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Aesculus hippocastanum n 1: tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds [syn: horse chestnut, buckeye, Aesculus hippocastanum]