Definition of Australian chestnut

1. Noun. Australian tree having pinnate leaves and orange-yellow flowers followed by large woody pods containing 3 or 4 seeds that resemble chestnuts; yields dark strong wood.

Exact synonyms: Moreton Bay Chestnut
Group relationships: Castanospermum, Genus Castanospermum
Generic synonyms: Bean Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Australian Chestnut

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Australian hare's foot
Australian heath
Australian honeysuckle
Australian magpie
Australian nettle
Australian nettle tree
Australian pea
Australian pelican
Australian pelicans

Literary usage of Australian chestnut

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Nut Culturist: A Treatise on the Propagation, Planting and Cultivation by Andrew Samuel Fuller (1896)
"But with so many far superior species of edible nuts, it is very doubtful if any of the oaks will ever be cultivated for their fruit. australian chestnut. ..."

2. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1895)
"... a locality in which I had liberated a number of Bombi more than a year ago. After it had sucked its fill from the flowers of an australian chestnut ..."

3. Tree-planting, 1899: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Best Trees to Plant in by David Ernest Hutchins (1899)
"australian chestnut. A beautiful semi-tropical tree that will succeed well only in the warm moist parts of South Africa. The fruit is like the European ..."

4. Report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War by Philippine Commission (1900-1916, United States (1908)
"One australian chestnut is reported as in bloom and one English walnut tree is alive and gives some promise of growing. Grapes—A number of imported and ..."

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