Definition of Aesculus hippocastanum

1. Noun. Tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Aesculus Hippocastanum

Aequian
Aer
Aerobacter
Aerobacter aerogenes
Aerococcus
Aeroflot
Aeromonas hydrophilia lipase-acyltransferase
Aertel
Aertex
Aeschylean
Aeschylus
Aeschynanthus radicans
Aesculapian
Aesculapius
Aesculus
Aesculus hippocastanum
Aesir
Aesop
Aesop's fables
Aesopian
Aesops
Aethionema
Aethusa
Aethusa cynapium
Aetobatus
Aetobatus narinari
Aetolia
AfPak
Afade

Literary usage of Aesculus hippocastanum

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

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"aesculus hippocastanum L. Horse- chestnut. Fig. 2815. aesculus hippocastanum L. Sp. Pl. 344. 1753. A large tree, reaching a maximum height of about 100° and ..."

2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"aesculus hippocastanum. The roots of land-plants are only capless in rare cases. aesculus hippocastanum furnishes an example4. There arise periodically upon ..."

3. Manual of Plant Diseases by Paul Sorauer, Gustav Lindau, Ludwig Reh (1922)
"aesculus hippocastanum and aesculus hippocastanum rubra, ... An experiment which I carried out with aesculus hippocastanum proves that an increase of ..."

4. Michigan Trees: A Handbook of the Native and Most Important Introduced Species by Charles Herbert Otis (1913)
"... extensively cultivated throughout Europe and America, where it is a favorite shade tree. A double flowered variety, aesculus hippocastanum, ..."

5. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1862)
"... dichotoma (Schleiden); in the wood-stem of aesculus hippocastanum, Carpinus Betulus, and various species ... aesculus hippocastanum. (Flandin, Belloc). ..."

6. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1911)
"In the xylem parenchyma of aesculus hippocastanum, Betula ver- ... its cellulose in Alnus, aesculus hippocastanum, Betula, Pinus montana, Larix europaea, ..."

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