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Chestnut vs Marron - What's the difference?

chestnut | marron |

As nouns the difference between chestnut and marron

is that chestnut is a tree or shrub of the genus Castanea while marron is a sweet chestnut.

As an adjective chestnut

is of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut.

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.
  • 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 *

    marron

    English

    Etymology 1

    Variant form of , later reinforced by (etyl) marron.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sweet chestnut.
  • *2007 , (Craig Silvey), Jasper Jones , Allen & Unwin 2007, p. 137:
  • *:‘I mean, shit, even if I had've come down here of a weekend and taken back a sack full of marron , I would have killed the pig up there.’
    • Derived terms
    *

    Etymology 2

    (wikipedia marron) (Cherax tenuimanus) (Cherax tenuimanus) (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • , a type of freshwater crayfish from Western Australia.
    • Synonyms
    * hairy marron, Margaret River marron

    See also

    * gilgie, jilgie * yabby, yabbie ----