American chestnut
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of American chestnut
An Americanism dating back to 1775–85
Example Sentences
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Whether chronicling the tragic history of the American chestnut, or the anger of contemporary activists confronting climate change, Powers’ concentric plots spin.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025
The blight precipitated an insidious acid in the American chestnut trees, and gnawed grievous cankers into their woody trunks.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2023
“We called them gray ghosts,” the now 77-year-old retired forester says of the American chestnut tree scattered throughout his former North Carolina home and still towering over the forest floors.
From National Geographic • Apr. 28, 2023
Within 50 years, the towering American chestnut trees were gone.
From Scientific American • Jan. 26, 2023
At the height of the American chestnut blight, every woodland breeze would lose spores in uncountable trillions to drift in a pretty, lethal haze on to neighboring hillsides.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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