1.
[syn: buckeye, horse chestnut, conker]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Horse-chestnut \Horse`-chest"nut\, Horsechestnut
\Horse`chest"nut\, n.
1. (Bot.) The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus
(Aesculus Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to
horses, whence the name. The seed is not considered edible
by humans. [WordNet sense 2]
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
2. (Bot.) The tree itself (Aesculus hippocastanum), which
was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the
sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate
zones of both hemispheres; it has palmate leaves and large
clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny
inedible seeds. The native American species is also called
buckeye and conker. [WordNet sense 1]
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
conker \conk"er\ (k[o^][ng]k"[~e]r), n.
the inedible nutlike seed of the horsechestnut.
Syn: buckeye, horsechestnut, horse-chestnut.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
conker
n 1: the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut [syn:
buckeye, horse chestnut, conker]