American chestnut

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An eastern North American deciduous tree (Castanea dentata) having narrow toothed leaves. It was once valued for its timber and nuts but is now found mostly as sprouts from old stumps, the aboveground parts having died from chestnut blight.

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• noun large tree found from Maine to Alabama