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Chinquapin

noun
(Written also chincapin and chinkapin)
1.
Shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States.  Synonyms: Castanea ozarkensis, Ozark chinkapin, Ozark chinquapin.
2.
Shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts.  Synonyms: Allegheny chinkapin, Castanea pumila, dwarf chestnut, eastern chinquapin.
3.
Small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut.  Synonyms: chincapin, chinkapin.



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"Chinquapin" Quotes from Famous Books



... need not have made so sharp. We might have taken the regular wagon-road by way of Chinquapin, but we preferred to stick to the trail, and so encountered our first sign of civilization within an hundred yards of the brink. It, the sign, was tourists. They were male and female, as the Lord had made them, but ...
— The Mountains • Stewart Edward White


Words linked to "Chinquapin" :   Castanea, edible nut, genus Castanea, chestnut, chestnut tree


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