Chestnut - Definition

adj 1: (of hair or feathers) of a golden brown to reddish brown
color; "a chestnut horse"; "chestnut hair"
n 1: wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea
2: any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in
autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur
[syn: chestnut, chestnut tree]
3: edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus
Castanea
4: the brown color of chestnuts
5: a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg
6: a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse