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horse-chestnut

English horse-chestnut meaning in English  •  horse-chestnut का अर्थ अंग्रेजी में
Noun
  • The large nutlike seed of a species of sculus (sculus Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name. The seed is not considered edible by humans.
  • 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 fl
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