CHESNUT Synonyms

• an orange of low brightness and saturation

• Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)

• abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)

• a university in Rhode Island

• of a color similar to that of wood or earth

• (of skin) deeply suntanned

• fry in a pan until it changes color

• make brown in color

• having the brown color of chestnuts

• a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans

• any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans

• a seed of the coffee tree; ground to make coffee

• a medium brown to dark-brown color

• Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts

• the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)

• any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk

• a shade of brown that is yellowish or reddish; it is a greenish shade of brown when used to describe the color of someone's eyes

• of a light brown or yellowish brown color

• wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture

• any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish

• a shade of brown with a tinge of red

• of a light brown to brownish orange color; the color of tanned leather

• any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur