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Dwarf chestnut   /dwɔrf tʃˈɛsnˌət/   Listen
Dwarf chestnut

noun
1.
Shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts.  Synonyms: Allegheny chinkapin, Castanea pumila, chinquapin, eastern chinquapin.






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"Dwarf chestnut" Quotes from Famous Books



... comrades, and the downy drop to ground and muted scurry up the bark of long-brush squirrels, cocktail on the wary watch, were noticed by him as well as by her; even the rotting timber drift, bark and cones on the yellow pine needles, and the tortuous dwarf chestnut pushing level out, with a strain of the head up, from a crevice of mossed rock, among ivy and ferns; he saw what his girl saw. Power of heart was her ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith



Words linked to "Dwarf chestnut" :   chincapin, chestnut tree, chinkapin, genus Castanea, chestnut, Castanea pumila, eastern chinquapin, Castanea



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