Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A chestnut (Castanea pumila) of eastern North America that grows as a shrub or small tree.
- noun Any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Fagaceae, including species in the genera Chrysolepis of western North America and Castanopsis of East and Southeast Asia.
- noun The edible nut of any of these plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
chinkapin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub (
Castanea pumila ) of North America, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the chestnut. Also, its small, sweet, edible nat. - noun a small shrubby oak (
Quercus prinoides ) of the Atlantic States, with edible acorns. - noun an evergreen shrub or tree (
Castanopes chrysophylla ) of the Pacific coast. In California it is a shrub; in Oregon a tree 30 to 125 feet high.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun any of the shrubs in the genus Castanopsis
- noun any of the several trees and shrubs in the genus Chrysolepis
- noun some of the species in the
chestnut genusCastanea - noun chinkapin oak (Quercus muhlenbergii), a species of oak whose leaves resemble those of chinkapins
- noun water-chinquapin, the water plant Nelumbo lutea, American lotus
- noun the redear sunfish (Lepomis microlophus)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut
- noun shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts
- noun shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Japanese chestnuts are the poorest of all in quality but he has taken the chinquapin, which is of high quality but the very smallest of the whole chestnut family, quite common in many of the central and southern states and as far west as Arkansas, has crossed the Japanese chestnut and the chinquapin, and has obtained seedlings that bear very young -- when they are not more than four or five feet high sometimes.
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Around Washington the chinquapin is a weed tree, and if you gather a peck of chinquapins you will find that the whole peck, in two weeks, have turned to weevils.
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I have found this to be the experience of others who have observed so-called chinquapin trees of a hybrid nature.
Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin Carl Weschcke 1933
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So for the past 2 weeks my girlfriend and her little sister have had a blast learning how to catch all the bluegill and chinquapin.
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So for the past 2 weeks my girlfriend and her little sister have had a blast learning how to catch all the bluegill and chinquapin.
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Dusk was coming down on the manzanitas and chinquapin of Chester, CA and turning them gold.
Owls 2010
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Among tree species are Eyer evergreen chinquapin Castonopsis eyeri, Farges evergreen chinquapin C. fabri, Hance tanbark oak Lithocarpus hancei, blue Japanese oak Cyclobalanopsis glauca, Taiwan pine Pinus taiwanesis, Chinese little-leaf box tree Buxus sinica var. parvifolia, common Chinese birch Cunninghmia lanceolata, Chinese cedar Cryptomeria fortunei, Masson pine P. Massoniana, etc.
Mount Wuyi, China 2008
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Turkey Mountain and adjacent slopes (4.04 km2 of apparently unlogged post oak and chinquapin oak savanna)
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I cannot make an exhibit of the golden-leaved chinquapin, from the
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Here is a branch from a hybrid between a chinquapin and a common
reesetee commented on the word chinquapin
Also chinkapin.
April 29, 2011