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AUSTRALIAN CHESTNUT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Australian chestnut; Moreton Bay chestnut
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Australian chestnut" is a kind of...):
bean tree (any of several trees having seedpods as fruits)
Holonyms ("Australian chestnut" is a member of...):
Castanospermum; genus Castanospermum (a rosid dicot genus of the subfamily Papilionoideae having one species: Moreton Bay chestnut)
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