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chinkapin
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Definitions ofchinkapin
1noun
- Any of the trees in the genus Castanopsis.
- Any of the trees and shrubs in the genus Chrysolepis.
- A water chinquapin, the water plant Nelumbo lutea, American lotus.
- The redear sunfish (Lepomis microlophus).
- A species in the chestnut genus Castanea:
- A chinkapin oak (Quercus muehlenbergii), a species of oak whose leaves resemble those of chestnut-genus chinquapins.
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