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  2. Chestnut (color) - Wikipedia

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    Deep chestnut is the color called chestnut in Crayola crayons.This colour was also produced in a special limited edition in which it was called Vermont maple syrup.. At the request of educators worried that children (mistakenly) believed the name represented the skin colour of Native Americans, Crayola changed the name of their crayon colour "Indian Red", originally formulated in 1958, to ...

  3. Chestnut (horse color) - Wikipedia

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    Chestnut is a hair coat color of horses consisting of a reddish-to-brown coat with a mane and tail the same or lighter in color than the coat. Chestnut is characterized by the absolute absence of true black hairs. It is one of the most common horse coat colors, seen in almost every breed of horse.

  4. Equine coat color - Wikipedia

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    The mane and tail are the same shade of chestnut or lighter chestnut than the body coat. The main color variations are: Liver Chestnut: very dark red chestnut coat. Sometimes a liver chestnut is also simply called "brown". Light Chestnut: seldom-used term for a pale chestnut coat, mane, and tail; Flaxen Chestnut: Any shade of chestnut, with a ...

  5. Chestnut - Wikipedia

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    It is possible to obtain a leather with high yield in weight, which is compact, firm, flexible, and waterproof. Chestnut-tanned leathers are elastic, lightfast, resistant to traction and abrasion, and have warm color. [115] [116] Chestnut tannin is one of the pyrogallol class of tannins (also known as hydrolysable tannin).

  6. Equine coat color genetics - Wikipedia

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    Equine coat color genetics determine a horse's coat color. Many colors are possible, but all variations are produced by changes in only a few genes . Bay is the most common color of horse, [ 2 ] followed by black and chestnut.

  7. Human hair color - Wikipedia

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    Chestnut hair is a hair color which is a reddish shade of brown hair. In contrast to auburn hair, the reddish shade of chestnut is darker. Chestnut hair is common among the native peoples of Northern, Central, Western, and Eastern Europe and is also found in Asia Minor, West Asia and North Africa.

  8. American chestnut - Wikipedia

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    Young tree in natural habitat American chestnut male (pollen) catkins. Castanea dentata is a rapidly-growing, large, deciduous hardwood eudicot tree. [20] A singular specimen manifest in Maine has attained a height of 115 feet (35 m) [21] Pre-blight sources give a maximum height of 100 feet (30 m) and a maximum circumference of 13 feet (4.0 m). [22]

  9. Cream gene - Wikipedia

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    Cream coat colors are described by their relationship to the three "base" coat colors: chestnut, bay, and black. All horses obtain two copies of the SLC45A2 gene; one from the sire, and one from the dam. A horse may have the cream allele or the non-cream allele on each gene. Those with two non-cream alleles will not exhibit true cream traits.