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A toxic nut that looks delicious, named for a deer's wary, glistening eye.
means A North American tree (or its shiny, inedible brown nut) of the horse chestnut family, also used as a nickname for natives of Ohio.
from A translation of a Native American name — likely from a Virginia Algonquian or related language — describing the nut's resemblance to the eye of a buck, dark with a pale ring. English speakers rendered it literally as 'buck eye.' Ohio leaned so heavily on the tree that it became 'the Buckeye State,' and its people, by extension, Buckeyes.
- do not eat
- Raw nuts are poisonous to humans and livestock
- good luck
- Carried in pockets as a charm against arthritis
- state tree
- Ohio built an entire identity around it
- the candy
- Peanut butter dipped in chocolate, mimicking the nut
- deer eye
- Named for resembling a buck's dark, shining eye
for instance
ohio state football — ncaa program with 8 national championships, rivals michigan since 1897
ohio buckeye tree — aesculus glabra, state tree of ohio, produces toxic seeds