Horse-chestnut
Pronunciation : Horse`-chest"nut, n. (Bot.) (a) The large nutlike seed of a species of ?sculus (?. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name. (b) The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century
Part of Speech : and
Definition :
is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913