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chestnut

On-Yomi: リツ、リ — Kun-Yomi: くり、おののく

Koohii stories:

1) [inuki] 9-11-2006(356): Chestnut tree, west nut tree.

2) [Filip] 23-2-2008(29): The cowboy climbed the tree to see where they were in the woods. The poor guy chose a chestnut tree. ouch ouch.

3) [fergal] 7-11-2009(26): Picture an old western cowboy on his front porch shooting chestnuts off his chestnut tree.

4) [Koos83] 10-1-2010(13): One of the trees most common in the Old West was the chestnut. Not the horse chestnut (#514 栃). They tried that first, but the horses spent all day eating those and they could never ride them.

5) [CharleyGarrett] 13-10-2006(11): Due to the great chestnut blight, since the time of the old west you just cannot find any more of these trees.

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