Horse Chestnut - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: horse chestnutBuckeye
A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus AEligsculus as the horse chestnut...
Esculic
Pertaining to or obtained from the horse chestnut as esculic acid...
Esculin
A glucoside obtained from the AEligsculus hippocastanum or horse chestnut and characterized by its fine blue fluorescent solutions...
fraxin
A colorless crystalline substance C16H18O10 found in the bark of the ash Fraxinus and along with esculin in the bark of the horse chestnut It is structurally a derivative of a coumarin glucoside It shows a delicate blue green fluorescence in alkaline solutions called also paviin and fraxoside...
Horse chestnut
The large nutlike seed of a species of AEligsculus AEligsculus Hippocastanum formerly ground and fed to horses whence the name The seed is not considered edible by humans...
Paviin
A glucoside found in species of the genus Pavia of the Horse chestnut family...
Pseudo monocotyledonous
Having two coalescent cotyledons as the live oak and the horse chestnut...
Quercitin
A yellow crystalline substance occurring quite widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom as in apple tree bark horse chestnut leaves etc but originally obtained by the decomposition of quercitrin Called also meletin...
Timber
Timber, has an enlarged or restricted sense, according to the connection in which it is employed, and may refer to standing trees or wood suitable for the manufacture of lumber to be used for building and allied purposes, Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. 54, p. 1.Timber, may be used in a restricted as well as enlarged sense. In the restricted sense it means specified trees like oak, ash, elm, teace, blackwood, ebony etc. and in the enlarged sense it means woods suitable for building, furniture, and carpentry etc., and includes standing trees. Its true meaning has to be determined from the context in which it is employed, Divisional Forest Officer v. Tata Finlay Ltd., AIR 2001 SC 2672. [See also Kerala Grants and Leases (Modification of Rights) Act, 1980, s. 4]Means at common law oak, ash and elm are timber if over twenty years old, but not so old as to have unusable wood in them. Other trees may be timber by the custom of the country. Thus beech is timber by the custom of Buckinghamshire an...
Horse
A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus especially the domestic horse Equus caballus which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period It has six broad molars on each side of each jaw with six incisors and two canine teeth both above and below The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting The horse differs from the true asses in having a long flowing mane and the tail bushy to the base Unlike the asses it has callosities or chestnuts on all its legs The horse excels in strength speed docility courage and nobleness of character and is used for drawing carrying bearing a rider and like purposes...
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