earth-chestnut

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Noun

earth-chestnut (plural earth-chestnuts)

  1. Synonym of kippernut, Bunium bulbocastanum
    • 1876, Swedish Catalogue. International Exhibition, 1876, volume I. Statistics, Philadelphia: Hallowell & Company, VII. Horticulture, page 218:
      […] the “Erdkastanie” earth-chestnut (Bunium bulbocastanum), and the Groundnut (Glycine apios) occur only in the southern parts of the country, and even there only occasionally.
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