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Sweet chestnut   /swit tʃˈɛsnˌət/   Listen
Sweet chestnut

noun
1.
Wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia.  Synonyms: Castanea sativa, European chestnut, Spanish chestnut.



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"Sweet chestnut" Quotes from Famous Books



... properties which are fit to help the growth of the peculiar nature and form of the fruit, flower, leaves of each tree. Suppose the chestnut is a horse-chestnut. If, under different conditions, the peculiar nature of the horse-chestnut changes into that of a sweet chestnut, then, along with the changes in the seed, the whole nature of the tree, leaves, fruits will also be changed. It will no more attract, absorb or assimilate those substances and qualities of the environments which it did when it was a horse-chestnut. Similarly, ...
— Reincarnation • Swami Abhedananda



Words linked to "Sweet chestnut" :   chestnut tree, chestnut



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