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Chinquapin

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Chinquapin or chinkapin may refer to:

Plants

  • Chinquapin or chinkapin, any of the shrubs in the genus Castanopsis
  • Chinquapin or chinkapin, any of the several trees and shrubs in the genus Chrysolepis
  • Chinquapin or chinkapin, some of the species in the chestnut genus Castanea
    • American chinquapin, Castanea pumila, a dwarf chestnut native to southeastern quarter of the U.S.
  • Chinkapin oak (Quercus muehlenbergii), a species of oak whose leaves resemble those of chinkapins
  • Dwarf chinkapin oak (Quercus prinoides), a closely related, more shrubby oak species
  • Water-chinquapin, a name for the water plant Nelumbo lutea, American lotus
  • Chinquapin rose, a name for Rosa roxburghii, an old Chinese rose

Places

Institutions

  • Chinquapin Preparatory School, a school in Highlands, Texas
  • Chinquapin Middle School, a school in Baltimore, Maryland

Other uses

  • USS Chinquapin (AN-17), a ship in the US Navy
  • Chinquapin Parish, a fictional parish in Louisiana and the setting for the 1987 play Steel Magnolias
  • Chinquapin, a name for the redear sunfish (Lepomis microlophus)
  • Chinquapin (newsletter), newsletter of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society

See also

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