Chestnut
(n.) The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur. |
Chestnut
(n.) The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc. |
Chestnut
(n.) A bright brown color, like that of the nut. |
Chestnut
(n.) The horse chestnut (often so used in England). |
Chestnut
(n.) One of the round, or oval, horny plates on the inner sides of the legs of the horse, and allied animals. |
Chestnut
(n.) An old joke or story. |
Chestnut
(a.) Of the color of a chestnut |
Eagle-winged
(a.) Having the wings of an eagle |
Full-winged
(a.) Having large and strong or complete wings. |
Full-winged
(a.) Beady for flight |
Hand-winged
(a.) Having wings that are like hands in the structure and arrangement of their bones |
Horse-chestnut
(n.) The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name. |
Horse-chestnut
(n.) The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes. |
Lace-winged
(a.) Having thin, transparent, reticulated wings |
Light-winged
(a.) Having light and active wings |
Sack-winged
(a.) Having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the wing |
Scale-winged
(a.) Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera |
Scaly-winged
(a.) Scale-winged. |
Sheath-winged
(a.) Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle. |
Somali
(n.) Alt. of Somal |
Spur-winged
(a.) Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings. |
Starling
(n.) Any passerine bird belonging to Sturnus and allied genera. The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss, and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird, and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also stare, and starred. The pied starling of India is Sternopastor contra. |
Starling
(n.) A California fish |
Starling
(n.) A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge for protection and support |
Water chestnut
() The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points |
Winged
(imp. & p. p.) of Wing |
Winged
(a.) Furnished with wings |
Winged
(a.) Soaring with wings, or as if with wings |
Winged
(a.) Swift |
Winged
(a.) Wounded or hurt in the wing. |
Winged
(a.) Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants |
Winged
(a.) Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body. |
Winged
(a.) Fanned with wings |
red-winged blackbird
redwing Agelaius phoeniceus | North American blackbird with scarlet patches on the wings |
| starling | gregarious birds native to the Old World |
common starling
Sturnus vulgaris | gregarious bird having plumage with dark metallic gloss, builds nests around dwellings and other structures, naturalized worldwide |
roseolored starling
roseolored pastor
Pastor sturnus
Pastor roseus | glossy black bird with pink back and abdomen, chiefly Asian |
greenwing
green-winged teal
Anas crecca | common teal of Eurasia and North America |
bluewing
blue-winged teal
Anas discors | American teal |
black-winged stilt
Himantopus himantopus | stilt of Europe and Africa and Asia having mostly white plumage but with black wings |
dipterous insect
two-winged insects
dipteran
dipteron | insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing |
| chestnut | a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse |
| liver chestnut | a solid dark brown horse |
| chestnut | a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg |
| chestnut | the brown color of chestnuts |
| Somali | the Cushitic language spoken by the Somali |
| water chestnut | edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant |
| chestnut | edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea |
Somali peninsula
Horn of Africa | a peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia |
Somalian
Somali | a member of a tall dark (mostly Muslim) people inhabiting Somalia |
winged pigweed
tumbleweed Cycloloma atriplicifolium | bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds |
winged everlasting
Ammobium alatum | Australian plant widely cultivated for its beautiful silvery-white blooms with bright yellow centers on long winged stems |
water chestnut Chinese water chestnut
Eleocharis dulcis | Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers |
chestnut
chestnut tree | any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn, yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur |
| chestnut | wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea |
American chestnut
American sweet chestnut
Castanea dentata | large tree found from Maine to Alabama |
European chestnut
sweet chestnut
Spanish chestnut
Castanea sativa | wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia |
Chinese chestnut
Castanea mollissima | a small tree with small sweet nuts, wild or naturalized in Korea and China |
Japanese chestnut
Castanea crenata | a spreading tree of Japan that has a short trunk |
Allegheny chinkapin
eastern chinquapin
chinquapin dwarf chestnut
Castanea pumila | shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts |
| oak chestnut | a tree of the genus Castanopsis |
swamp chestnut oak
Quercus michauxii | medium to large deciduous tree of moist areas of southeastern United States similar to the basket oak |
| chestnut oak | an oak having leaves resembling those of chestnut trees |
chinquapin oak
chinkapin oak
yellow chestnut oak
Quercus muehlenbergii | medium-sized deciduous tree of the eastern United States that yields a strong durable wood |
water chestnut water chestnut plant
caltrop | a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits |
rose chestnut
ironwood ironwood tree Mesua ferrea | handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume, source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties |
winged elm
wing elm
Ulmus alata | North American elm having twigs and young branches with prominent corky projections |
Moreton Bay chestnut
Australian chestnut | Australian tree having pinnate leaves and orange-yellow flowers followed by large woody pods containing or seeds that resemble chestnuts, yields dark strong wood |
winged pea asparagus pea
Lotus tetragonolobus | sprawling European annual having a -winged edible pod |
winged bean
winged pea goa bean goa bean vine
Manila bean
Psophocarpus tetragonolobus | a tuberous twining annual vine bearing clusters of purplish flowers and pods with four jagged wings, Old World tropics |
winged spindle tree
Euonymous alatus | bushy deciduous shrub with branches having thin wide corky longitudinal wings, brilliant red in autumn, northeastern Asia to central China |
horse chestnut
buckeye
Aesculus hippocastanum | tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds |
| buckeye horse chestnut conker | the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut |
chestnut blight
chestnut canker
chestnut-bark disease | a disease of American chestnut trees |
| chestnut | (of hair or feathers) of a golden brown to reddish brown color, a chestnut horse, chestnut hair |
| chestnut-brown | (of hair or feathers) of brown tinged with chestnut |
chestnut-colored
chestnut-coloured | having the brown color of chestnuts |
| winged | very fast, as if with wings, on winged feet |
| winged | having wings or as if having wings of a specified kind, the winged feet of Mercury, |
brachypterous
short-winged | (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings |
| one-winged | having a single wing |
| slender-winged | having slender wings |
| small-winged | having small wings |