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earth-chestnuts

earth-chestnuts is the plural of earth-chestnut.

Meaning of earth-chestnut

Noun

earth-chestnut (plural earth-chestnuts)

  1. Synonym of kippernut, Bunium bulbocastanum
    • […] the “Erdkastanie” earth-chestnut (Bunium bulbocastanum), and the Groundnut (Glycine apios) occur only in the southern parts of the country, and even there only occasionally.1876, Swedish Catalogue. International Exhibition, 1876, volume I. Statistics, Philadelphia: Hallowell & Company, VII. Horticulture, page 218
    Synonyms:
    kippernut, Bunium bulbocastanum

Questions about earth-chestnuts

What is earth-chestnuts the plural of?
Earth-chestnuts is the plural of earth-chestnut.

Words near earth-chestnuts in the dictionary

  1. earth-berries
  2. earth-berry
  3. earth-born
  4. earth-bound
  5. earth-chestnut
  6. earth-chestnuts
  7. earth-diver
  8. earth-divers
  9. earth-drake
  10. earth-drakes
  11. earth-fast

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