horse chestnut in English

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a deciduous tree with large leaves of five leaflets, conspicuous sticky winter buds, and upright conical clusters of white, pink, or red flowers. Unrelated to true chestnuts, the horse chestnut bears unpalatable nuts enclosed in fleshy, thorny husks.
They are all native species such as oak, horse chestnut and flowering cherry and have replaced those lost over the past few years, including one that was hit by a car and another that was blown down in the January gales.
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1. This is a horse chestnut.

2. Conkers come from the horse chestnut tree

3. (Britain) A horse chestnut, used in the game of Conkers

4. Do not crush, chew, break, or open a horse Chestnut capsule

5. A branch of ripe Conkers on a horse chestnut tree (aesculus hippocastanum)

6. Conker definition: Conkers are round brown nuts which come from horse chestnut trees

7. Conkers is a traditional game played using the seeds of horse chestnut trees

8. Real Buckeyes are nuts that grow on trees and are related to the horse chestnut.

9. Horse Chestnut contains significant amounts of a poison called esculin and can cause death if eaten raw.

10. It is best to use a horse Chestnut product that contains an exact amount of the labeled chemical.

11. The usual dose of horse Chestnut in capsule form is 1 capsule every 12 hours before a meal

12. Radioallergosorbent test examinations and prick tests with horse chestnut and sweet chestnut were carried out during the allergological diagnostics.

13. The seed of the horse chestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum Conkers, a traditional children's game, using the seed threaded on a string; Video games

14. Conkers definition: a game in which a player swings a horse chestnut ( conker ), threaded onto a string , Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

15. Conkers, a game in which a child swings a horse chestnut on a string in an attempt to break that of another player.

16. Buckeye definition is - any of various shrubs or trees (genus Aesculus) of the horse-chestnut family; also : the large nutlike seed of such a shrub or tree.

17. 2 Conkers plural : a game in which each player swings a horse chestnut on a string to try to break one held by the opponent First Known Use of conker circa 1886, in the meaning defined at sense 1 …

18. You can collect fallen Conkers and plant the nuts to grow horse chestnut trees of your very own! Conker trees can be a wonderful addition to a home garden because they provide dappled shade and produce nectar and pollen for bees and other insects

19. (noun) Of deciduous trees the sycamore, wych-elm, horse-chestnut, beech, lime, plane and poplar may be used, - the Abele or white poplar, Populus alba, being one of the most rapidgrowing of all trees, and, like other poplars, well suited for nursing other choicer subjects; while of evergreens, the holm oak, holly, laurel (both common and Portugal), and such