As nouns the difference between chestnut and carmine
is that chestnut is a tree or shrub of the genus Castanea while carmine is a purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives.
As adjectives the difference between chestnut and carmine
is that chestnut is of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut while carmine is of the purplish red colour shade carmine.
chestnut
English
Noun
A tree or shrub of the genus Castanea .
The nut of this tree or shrub.
(uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color.
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A reddish-brown horse.
(uncountable) The wood of a chestnut tree.
(idiomatic) (Often "old chestnut") A worn-out meme; a phrase, etc. so often repeated as to have grown tiresome.
A round or oval horny plate found on the inner side of the leg of a horse or other animal, similar to a birthmark on a human.
(UK) horse-chestnut
Synonyms
* (tree) chestnut tree
Derived terms
* American chestnut
* chestnut blight
* chestnut oak
* chestnut tree
* dwarf chestnut
* horse chestnut
* Moreton Bay chestnut
* pull chestnuts out of the fire
* Spanish chestnut
* sweet chestnut
* water chestnut
Adjective
(-)
Of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut.
Related terms
* castanet
See also
* (wikipedia)
* black bean
* buckeye
* caltrop
* chinquapin
* chinquapin oak
* conker
* maroon
* water caltrop
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carmine
English
Noun
(
en noun)
A purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives
A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment.
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Synonyms
* (pigment) crimson, cochineal,
Adjective
(head)
of the purplish red colour shade carmine.
See also
*
Anagrams
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