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chincapin

chincapin is the alternative form of chinquapin.

Meaning of chinquapin

Noun

chinquapin (plural chinquapins)

  1. Allegheny chinkapin (Castanea pumila)
  2. Ozark chinkapin (Castanea ozarkensis)
  3. Chinese chinkapin (Castanea henryi)
  4. Any in the genus Castanopsis of trees.
  5. Any in the genus Chrysolepis of trees and shrubs.
  6. Quercus muehlenbergii, a tree whose leaves resemble those of chestnut-genus chinquapins.
    Synonyms:
    chinkapin oak

See all 8 meanings of chinquapin

Forms of chincapin

pluralchincapins

Questions about chincapin

What is chincapin the alternative form of?
Chincapin is the alternative form of chinquapin.

Words near chincapin in the dictionary

  1. chinband
  2. chinbands
  3. chinbone
  4. chinbones
  5. Chinca
  6. chincapin
  7. chincapins
  8. chince
  9. chinces
  10. chinch
  11. Chincha

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chincapin (page history and authors); chinquapin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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