Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The dwarf chestnut of the United States, Castanea pumila, a shrub or tree, ranging from Pennsylvania to Texas, and bearing a nut similar to that of the chestnut, but smaller and solitary in the bur.
- n. On the Pacific coast of the United States, the Castanopsis chrysophylla, a tree or shrub of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountains. This is more nearly allied to the oak than to the chestnut, though the small nut, which is not edible and does not mature till the second year, is inclosed in a similar spiny bur. See
water-chinkapin . - n. The nut of Castanea pumila.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of chinquapin.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut
Examples
“The chinkapin is a coming nut; the school children are looking for them like I used to look for the butternuts in the early days.”
“The most important evergreen trees of the sclerophyll forest are California live oak, canyon live oak, interior live oak, tanoak, California laurel, Pacific madrone, golden chinkapin, and Pacific bayberry.”
California Coastal Range Open Woodland-Shrub-Coniferous Forest - Meadow Province (Bailey)
“The riparian areas surrounding the springs are oases of velvet ash, chinkapin oak, Texas madrone, bigtooth maple, maidenhair fern, and sawgrass.”
“We were climbing in good earnest now, and the trees began to change; small groves of chestnut trees, large patches of oak and hickory, with scattered dogwood and persimmon, chinkapin and poplar, surrounded us in waves of feathery green.”
“The Wilderness was second-growth country, gullied and full of scrubby chinkapin and blackjack oaks, scraggy pines, hazel, and every kind of thorn - and bramble-bearing bush known to man.”
“From the same root common chinkapin will keep on bearing year after year.”
“Furthermore I have among a large number of hybrids, two of very high quality between the American sweet chestnut and the chinkapin.”
“The chinkapins and the alder-leaved chestnuts on this side hill have been so blight resistant as to require almost no attention, and for that reason I am making hybrids between the chinkapin and the alder-leaved chestnut and the Chinese chestnut in the hope of making an excellent combination of chinkapin quality and Chinese size.”
“Some of the hybrids do that while others show the resistance of the chinkapin parent.”
“Over the rocky places we could plant the chinkapin and hazel.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘chinkapin’.
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Invisible Man
Words culled from Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
sweetback, inspirit, plasticine, atoss, hyperreceptivity, laugher-at-wounds, necrophily, monopolate, aliveness, thinker-tinker, weltschmerz, klieg and 113 more...
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
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A-oakay
A quercus little list.
live, white, scarlet, blue, pin, red, gambel, gray, bear, bluejack, bur, turkey and 14 more...
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reesetee Also see chinquapin. Apr 29, 2011
chained_bear "They picked their way along the ridge, searching for a safe way down through the tangles of chinkapin, poplar, and spruce."
—Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross (NY: Bantam Dell, 2001), 248 Jan 18, 2010