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horse chestnut

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horse chestnut,
n Latin names:
Aesculus hippocastanum, Aesculus california, Aesculus glabra; parts used: seeds (extract), bark; uses: varicose veins, chronic venous insufficiency, phlebitis, fever, hemorrhoids, edema, inflammation; precautions: whole seeds are toxic; patients on anticoagulant medications or who have kidney or liver dysfunction. Also called
aescin, buckeye, California buckeye, chestnut, escine, Ohio buckeye, or
Spanish chestnut.
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Then there are horse chestnuts (Aesculus hippocastanum), not of the same genus as "true" chestnuts, whose fruits are inedible unless processed to remove their large concentration of bitter tannins; water chestnuts (Trapa spp.
Fighting the blight by Art Culinaire
Spanish Chestnut's destiny may hinge on whether he is taught to ``manage his speed,'' as Biancone put it after the Florida-bred son of Horse Chestnut recorded his third victory in five starts and his first at the stakes level.
A CHESTNUT OF A TRIUMPH SAN RAFAEL VICTORY IS STEP TOWARD DERBY by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Douglas, it is possible to demonstrate just about anything through a "fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse.
Will the real Abe Lincoln please stand up? by Freedman, Russell / The Horn Book Magazine
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