NOUN
- tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds
- the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut
How To Use horse chestnut In A Sentence
- The trees are in blossom and although my hay fever is in evidence - they look truly beautiful - especially the horse chestnuts which are glorious round here.
- They have done more conkers than a row of horse chestnut trees in December. The Sun
- Mixed weather and a horse chestnut tree virus were blamed. Times, Sunday Times
- Other conspicuous species include the whites, pinks and mauves of the lilacs and laburnums on Mitchell Drive and the common horse chestnut whose upright white flower stalks stand out boldly - there are several fine trees near to the Great Oak Hall.
- She has picked hazel, horse chestnut and oak. Times, Sunday Times
- Many horse chestnut trees are withered from top to toe, but this is not due to seasonal change. Times, Sunday Times
- SHOULD I burn the diseased leaves from my horse chestnut tree? The Sun
- THE playground game of conkers could become extinct as Britain's horse chestnut trees are wiped out by disease and a plague of foreign moths. The Sun
- THE playground game of conkers could become extinct as Britain's horse chestnut trees are wiped out by disease and a plague of foreign moths. The Sun
- I decided that the birds could nest anywhere except in the stand of horse chestnut trees outside my back door.