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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A deciduous tree (Castanea mollissima) native to China and Korea, resistant to chestnut blight and cultivated as an ornamental and for its edible nuts.
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- noun a small tree with small sweet nuts; wild or naturalized in Korea and China
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