Definitions
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- noun deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asia
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Examples
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The lofty sugar-maple (_acer saccharinum_) was seen, and lower down the leafy buck-eye (_aesculus flava_) with its pretty orange-flowers, and the shell-bark hickory -- the _juglans alba_ of the botanists.
The Boy Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
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I also have a red flowering variety, aesculus pavia, and it lost its leaves weeks ago).
The surprising winner for the best fall color is… « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2008
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And maybe it was the wet spring, but my aesculus parviflora, or bottlebrush buckeye, has a great yellow color now (that’s the bottlebrush with the white flowers.
The surprising winner for the best fall color is… « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2008
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