Usually means: Deciduous tree, devastated by blight.
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  1. American chestnut: Merriam-Webster
  2. American chestnut: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. American chestnut: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. American chestnut: Vocabulary.com
  5. american chestnut: Dictionary.com
  6. American Chestnut, American chestnut: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. American chestnut: Rhymezone
  8. american chestnut: FreeDictionary.org
  9. american chestnut: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. American chestnut: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. American chestnut: Merriam-Webster
  12. American chestnut: Wiktionary

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▸ noun:  A large tree native to eastern North America, Castanea dentata, that was almost wiped out in its native range by the chestnut blight.


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non-native, exotic, foreign

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american sweet chestnut, more...

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