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Chincapin   Listen
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Chincapin  n.  See Chinquapin.



Chinquapin  n.  (Written also chincapin and chinkapin)  (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.
Chinquapin oak, a small shrubby oak (Quercus prinoides) of the Atlantic States, with edible acorns.
Western Chinquapin, 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.






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"Chincapin" Quotes from Famous Books



... where are the big chincapin thickets we have heard so much about?" inquired Elva, in whose ideas these nuts were, after all, the most immediately important item in their ...
— Her Mother's Secret • Emma D. E. N. Southworth

... one, a little dark-moustached Spaniard, who was listening and peering at him, with eyes black and pointed as a chincapin, and, murmuring softly in Spanish, turned and went away. "What did that d——d black-muzzled whelp say?" Larry asked. "I don't understand their d——d lingo." An unobtrusive individual in the background translated it for him. He said: "He who strikes with the tongue, should always be ready ...
— The Memories of Fifty Years • William H. Sparks



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