What is Chestnut?
'''Chestnut''' is the name for a kind of tree or the nut from the tree. Chestnut may also be: In '''botany''': * [[American chestnut]], one of the most important forest trees throughout much of the eastern United States and southeasternmost Canada * [[Chestnut blight]], [[fungus|fungal]] disease * [[Chestnut oak]], species of oak in the white oak group * Chinese chestnut **[[Castanea mollissima]], species of chestnut native to China **[[Sterculia monosperma]], also known as Thai Chestnut * Guiana chestnut, a name for ''[[Pachira aquatica]]'' * [[Horse chestnut]], member of the genus ''Aesculus'' * [[Japanese chestnut]], species of chestnut from Japan and South Korea * Malabar chestnut, a name for ''[[Pachira aquatica]]'' * [[Swamp chestnut oak]], species of oak in the white oak section Quercus * [[Sweet chestnut]], species of chestnut from southeastern Europe and Asia Minor In '''geography''': * [[Chestnut, Illinois]], United States * [[Chestnut Grove, North Carolina]], United States In '''zoology''': * [[Chestnut (coat)]], color of horse * [[Chestnut (horse anatomy)]], on the legs of horses * [[Chestnut Dunnart]], dunnart that was described by Van Dyck in 1986 * [[Chestnut Sparrow]], sparrow that likes dry savanna * [[Chestnut Teal]], dabbling duck found in southern Australia * [[Chestnut Woodpecker]], bird from South America from Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas south to Ecuador, Bolivia and northern Brazil, and on Trinidad * [[Horse-chestnut leaf miner]], a moth In '''other fields''': * [[Chestnut (color)]], reddish brown * [[Chestnut hair]], reddish brown hair * [[Operation Chestnut]], failed British raid by 2 Special Air Service * [[Chestnut (joke)]], British slang for an old or stale [[joke]] * [[Chestnut (music)]], piece of music that has been played so much that everyone has grown tired of it '''People with the family name Chestnut''': * [[Cyrus Chestnut]], jazz pianist * [[U.S. Capitol shooting incident (1998)|Jacob Chestnut]], one of the two United States Capitol Police officers killed in t