horse-chestnuts的中文意思、音标与词形变化

(horse-chestnut 的复数) [医] 马栗树, 七叶树

plural of horse-chestnut n. The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name. 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.