horse-chestnuts
📖 中文释义
- (horse-chestnut 的复数) [医] 马栗树, 七叶树
🔗 释义中的汉语词
🧩 词形变化
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- plural of horse-chestnut
- n. The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus
- (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the
- name.
- n. The tree itself, which was brought from
- Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now
- common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American
- species are called buckeyes.