answersLogoWhite

0


Best Answer

Yes there is, a horse chestnut is somethin on the inside of their legs that when they where inside their mothers stomach they where connected, then when they where born the chestnut spit apart so they could walk.

And a chestnut nut is something you eat.

User Avatar

Wiki User

14y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar
More answers
User Avatar

Wiki User

16y ago

An Italian Chestnut, is a type of nut you eat. A horse chestnut is the scabby looking circular spot on the insides of both front and hind legs. This spot is believed to be where the horses of ancient times's third toe came from. I would not suggest eating a horse chestnut. :-)

This answer is:
User Avatar

User Avatar

Wiki User

11y ago

Chestnuts are actual nuts and grow on trees, are smoother and used in baked goods.

Water chestnuts are more of a vegetable, are crunchy, have a higher water content and used in stir fry.

This answer is:
User Avatar

User Avatar

Wiki User

9y ago

One of the main differences between chestnuts and water chestnuts is that the water chestnut is not a nut. A water chestnut is an aquatic plant that grows in marshes under the water. The regular chestnut actually grows on a tree and is classified as a nut.

This answer is:
User Avatar

User Avatar

Wiki User

14y ago

water chestnut is a nut

This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: Difference between chestnut and water chestnut?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

What is the difference between the color of black cherry and chestnut?

your mum's head


How can you tell the difference between a buckeye nut and a chestnut?

The differences between a buckeye and a horse chestnut is the way that they look. Buckeyes are bumpier. Buckeyes are a milk chocolate color when they are ripe, while horse chestnuts are a chestnut brown.


What is the difference between a chestnut and bay colt?

Colt has no matter. A chestnut horse, has a chestnut colored body with the same colored mane. A bay horse, Has darker brown (bay) body with generally a black mane.


What do you call chestnut in Tamil?

(Indian water chestnut): Singhada


Which part of the water chestnut do we eat?

"The seed inside of the shell is the part of the water chestnut we eat. These seeds can be eaten fried, roasted, boiled, or even raw and are said to be high in starch." The above answer is not correct - that is a normal chestnut, NOT a water chestnut. The edible part of a water chestnut is the root of an aquatic plant also known as caltrop.


What is the difference between a mailman and water?

The difference between a mailman and water is water can be bottled and a mailman can't.


What is the Italian translation of 'chestnut'?

A chestnut / the chestnut = un castagno (or: una castagna) / il castagno (or: la castagna). They have both masculine and feminine words, with no exact difference.


What is the difference between water and ecowater?

The main difference between water and ecowater is the hardness rating difference. For water testing and filter options, see your local water specialist.


What is the cross between liver and chestnut?

Assuming you are referring to the horse colors. Liver is a darker form of chestnut and therefore there is no 'cross' between them. The shade of chestnut inherited by a foal is purely genetic.


Is a water chestnut a legume?

No, the edible part of the water chestnut is a tuber (much like a potato) that forms on roots of the water chestnut plant, a grasslike plant that grows in freshwater ponds, mostly in Asian countries. The unpeeled tuber resembles a chestnut, giving the plant its somewhat misleading name.


What is the difference between conkers and chestnuts?

No. Sweet Chestnut is contained in a capsule with soft spines and roasted , Horse Chestnut is contained in a spherical capsule with sharp spikes and is inedible. Latin genus,Castana hence 'castanets'. To be absolutely correct a roasting chestnut is the seed of Castanea sativa the Spanish Chestnut. Conkers are the seed of 'Aesculus Hippocastanum the Horse Chestnut.


What is the difference between fresh water and potable water?

the difference between fresh water and potable water is fresh water can come form the ground, and/or, ice burgs.