noun
a buckeye with scaly grey bark that is found in the central United States
• Hypernyms: ↑horse chestnut, ↑buckeye, ↑Aesculus hippocastanum
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nounUsage: usually capitalized O
: a buckeye (Aesculus glabra) that occurs chiefly in the central United States and has gray bark which is much-furrowed and broken into scaly plates and leaves which have usually five finely toothed leaflets more or less glabrous beneath
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Ohio buckeye,
a kind of horse chestnut with white, soft, and spongy wood that grows in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys; fetid buckeye.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.