Definition of "chinkapin" []

• Alternative form of chinquapin. (noun)

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• "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."
• "The riparian areas surrounding the springs are oases of velvet ash, chinkapin oak, Texas madrone, bigtooth maple, maidenhair fern, and sawgrass."