chestnut

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n. 栗子, 栗树, 栗色 a. 栗色的

发音

UK /ˈt͡ʃɛs(t)nʌt/
US /ˈt͡ʃɛs(t)ˌnʌt/
AU

词形变化

chestnuts 复数 chestnuts

别名

chessnut cheznut chesnut ch

教材释义与例句

名词

栗子；栗色； 栗树；栗色马

形容词

栗色的

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An edible nut (technically a fruit) of the Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut tree (Castanea sativa); also (chiefly preceded by a descriptive word), a nut from a related shrub or tree; or a similar nut from an unrelated plant.

    栗子

    板栗

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    In full chestnut tree: the shrub or tree that bears this nut, the Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa); also (chiefly preceded by a descriptive word), a shrub or tree of the genus Castanea.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    Things resembling a chestnut fruit in appearance or colour.

    An oval or round horny plate located on the inner side of the leg of a horse or other equines, which is thought by some people to correspond with the thumbnail of other animals.

    可数 引申义 不可数
  4. 4.

    Chiefly in old chestnut: a joke, meme, phrase, ploy, etc. which has been repeated so often as to have grown ineffective or tiresome; a cliché.

    可数 比喻 不可数
  5. 5.

    In full chestnut tree: the shrub or tree that bears this nut, the Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa); also (chiefly preceded by a descriptive word), a shrub or tree of the genus Castanea.

    Wood of a chestnut tree.

    不可数 可数
  6. 6.

    In full chestnut tree: the shrub or tree that bears this nut, the Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa); also (chiefly preceded by a descriptive word), a shrub or tree of the genus Castanea.

    Short for horse chestnut (“any of several tree species of the genus Aesculus, especially Aesculus hippocastanum; the fruit of such a tree”).

    英国 可数 不可数
  7. 7.

    Things resembling a chestnut fruit in appearance or colour.

    A dark, reddish-brown colour, like that of chestnut fruit (noun sense 1).

    栗色

    不可数 引申义 可数
  8. 8.

    Things resembling a chestnut fruit in appearance or colour.

    A horse with a reddish-brown coat.

    可数 引申义 不可数
adj.
  1. 1.

    Of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut fruit (noun sense 1).

    chestnut hair

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

chestnut tree

上位词 6

horse tree brown wood brownness callus

下位词 5

chinquapin American chestnut Japanese chestnut Spanish chestnut sweet chestnut

整体词 1

chestnut tree
形容词

近义相关 1

chromatic

相关短语

chestnut tree 栗树 chestnut rail chestnut oak [网络] 栗橡木；栗子橡树；可以翻译成栗橡树 chestnut oaks chestnut rails chestnut trees (chestnut-tree 的复数) 栗树 chestnut teal chestnut teals chestnut blight 栗树疫病, 栗疫病 chestnut munia 黑头文鸟 chestnut munias Chestnut Hill chestnut clearwing moth chestnut clearwing moths chestnut weevil

词源

The noun is a contraction of chest(en) (“(obsolete) chestnut tree; fruit of this tree, chestnut”) + nut. Chesten is a late variant of chesteine (obsolete), from Middle English chesten, chesteine, chasteine, chesteyne (“chestnut tree (Castanea sativa); fruit of this tree; wood of this tree”), from Old French chastaigne, chastaine (French châtaigne), from Latin castanea (“chestnut tree; fruit of this tree”) (whence Old English ċisten), from Ancient Greek κᾰστᾰ́νειᾰ (kăstắneiă), a variant of κᾰ́στᾰνᾰ (kắstănă, “sweet chestnut”); for further etymology, see that entry. Doublet of castanet. Noun sense 4 (“joke, phrase, etc., which has been repeated so often as to have grown ineffective or tiresome”) may refer to an 1816 play, The Broken Sword, by William Dimond (1781 – c. 1837), in which one character begins to relate a story in which a boy slips down from a cork tree, and another interrupts him to say that he had previously repeated the story many times, and always mentioned a chestnut tree. The adjective is probably from an attributive use of the noun; compare French (of hair) châtain (“chestnut”) (from châtaigne (“a chestnut”)) and marron (“brown”) (from marron (“a horse chestnut or chestnut”)).

来源：wiktionary