Crossword clues for chinkapin
chinkapin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chinquapin \Chin"qua*pin\, n. (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. [Written also chincapin and chinkapin.]
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Some of the species in the chestnut genus ''Castanea''. 2 # (vern Allegheny chinkapin pedia=1) ((taxlink Castanea pumila species noshow=1)) 3 # (vern Ozark chinkapin pedia=1) ((taxlink Castanea ozarkensis species noshow=1)) 4 # (vern Chinese chinkapin pedia=1) ((taxlink Castanea henryi species noshow=1)) 5 A (vern chinkapin oak pedia=1) ((taxlink Quercus muhlenbergii species noshow=1)), a species of oak whose leaves resemble those of chinkapins 6 (alternative form of chinquapin English) 7 # Any of the trees in the genus (taxlink Castanopsis genus noshow=1). 8 # Any of the trees and shrubs in the genus (taxlink Chrysolepis genus noshow=1). 9 # A (vern water-chinquapin pedia=1), the water plant ''Nelumbo lutea'', (vern American lotus pedia=1). 10 # The (vern redear sunfish pedia=1) ((taxlink Lepomis microlophus species noshow=1))
WordNet
n. small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut [syn: chincapin, chinquapin]
Usage examples of "chinkapin".
And so we walked, hour upon hour, over rollercoaster hills, along kinife-edge ridges and over grassy balds, through depthless ranks of oak, ash, chinkapin, and pine.
We worked fast, felling the saplings-the willow and pin oak, the swamp maple and chinkapin- and, without even waiting hardly to trim them, dragging them behind the mules and by hand too, through the mud and the briers to where Father waited.
We worked fast, felling the saplingsthe willow and pin oak, the swamp maple and chinkapin and, without even waiting hardly to trim them, dragging them behind the mules and by hand too, through the mud and the briers to where Father waited.