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Chestnut is a British slang term for an old joke, often as old chestnut. The term is also used for a piece of music in the repertoire that has grown stale or hackneyed with too much repetition. The term is also used for a piece of music in the repertoire that has grown stale or hackneyed with too much repetition.
The American chestnut is a prolific bearer of nuts, with inflorescence and nut production in the wild beginning when a tree is 8 to 10 years old. [35] Burrs often open while still attached to the tree, around the time of the first frost in autumn, with the nuts then falling to the ground. [36]
The name "chestnut" is derived from an earlier English term "chesten nut", which descends from the Old French word chastain (Modern French, châtaigne). [25] The French word in turn derives from Latin Castanea (also the scientific name of the tree), which traces to the Ancient Greek word κάστανον (sweet chestnut). [26]
The Oxford English Dictionary claims that in The Broken Sword Dimond originated the term 'chestnut', now a common British slang term for an old joke, often as 'old chestnut'. [4] In his play one character keeps repeating the same stories, one of them about a cork tree, and is interrupted each time by another character who says: "Chestnut, you ...
Artemisia stelleriana is an Asian and North American species of plants in the sunflower family.It is native to China (Heixiazi Island in Heilongjiang Province), Japan, Korea, Russian Far East (Sakhalin, Kuril Islands, Yakutia, Kamchatka Peninsula), and the Aleutian Islands in the United States.
Natural shedding of an organ that is mature or aged, as of a ripe fruit or an old leaf. [4] abscission zone Specialized layer of tissue that allows an organ to be shed by abscission when it is ripe or senescent. Such tissue is commonly formed, for example, at the base of a petiole or pedicel. acaulescent
Aesculus glabra, commonly known as Ohio buckeye, [2] Texas buckeye, [3] fetid buckeye, [3] and horse chestnut [3] is a species of tree in the soapberry family (Sapindaceae) native to North America. Its natural range is primarily in the Midwestern and lower Great Plains regions of the United States, extending southeast into the geological Black ...
Authors of botany agree the chestnut tree is thousands of years old but do not agree on its exact age. [clarification needed] It is likely between two and four thousand years old. The thesis of the Turin botanist Bruno Peyronel suggests it could be 3-4 thousand years old, making it the oldest tree in Europe and the largest in Italy (1982). [7] [8]